Subsistence agriculture & economic development

Preface

Contributors

Introduction: The Challenge of Population and Food

1. The Development Problems of Subsistence Farmers: A Preliminary Review

2. Subsistence Agriculture: Concepts and Scope

Part I. The Subsistence Farmer, Agrarian Cultures, and Peasant Societies

3. Social Structure and Peasant Economy: The Influence of Social Structure Upon Peasant Economies

Comment: An Economist's View of Social Structure Interaction with the Subsistence Economy

Comment: The Influence of Social Structure on the Javanese Peasant Economy

Case Study: A Semisubsistence Village Economy in Lower Burma

4. The Institutional Aspects of Peasant Communities: An Analytical View

Comment: Old and New Approaches to Peasant Economies

Comment: The Peasant Economies of Today's Underdeveloped Areas

Case Study: New Evidence on Farmer Responses to Economic Opportunities from the Early Agrarian History of Western Europe

5. Motivations, Values, and Attitudes of Subsistence Farmers: Toward a Subculture of Peasantry

Comment: A Critical View of a Subculture of Peasantry

Comment: Testing Theories Concerning a Subculture of Peasantry

Case Study: Growth of "Economic Mindedness" Among Small Farmers in North Sumatra, Indonesia

Part II. The Economic Behavior of Subsistence Farmers

6. Subsistence and Commercial Family Farms: Some Theoretical Models of Subjective Equilibrium

Comment: Models of the Family Farm

Comment: On Subjective Equilibrium of the Subsistence Farmer

Case Study: Effects of Increasing Commercialization on Resource Use in Semi-Subsistence Farms in South Korea

7. The Subsistence Farmer in Traditional Economies

Comment: The Subsistence Farmer in Traditional Economies

8. Supply Relationships in Peasant Agriculture: Editor's Introduction

Case Study: Supply Response and the Modernization of Peasant Agriculture: A Study of Four Major Annual Crops in Thailand

Case Study: Supply Relations for Perennial Crops in the Less-Developed Areas

Part III. Theories of Change and Growth

9. The Early Stages of Development in a Primitive Economy: The Evolution from Subsistence to Trade and Specialization

Comment: The Demand for Food, Leisure, and Economic Surpluses

Case Study: Subsistence and Transition among the Ibaloi in the Philippines

10. Development in Agrarian Economies: The Role of Agricultural Surplus, Population Pressures, and Systems of Land Tenure

11. The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development: Classical versus Neoclassical Models of Growth

Comment: Sectoral Interdependence, Structural Transformation, and Agricultural Growth

Comment: Two Sector Models and Development Policy

Part IV. Developing Subsistence Agriculture

12. Transforming Traditional Agriculture: Editor's Introduction

Comment: Questions of Economic Analysis and the Consequences of Population Growth

Comment: Diagnosis, Prediction, and Policy Formulation

Case Study: The Problems of a Subsistence Farm Economy: The Indian Case

13. The Execution of Agricultural Development: Case Studies of Planned Change: Editor's Introduction

Case Study: The Cornell Program in Vicos, Peru

Case Study: The Comilla Program in East Pakistan

Case Study: The ACAR Program in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Case Study: The Rockefeller Foundation Program in Corn and Wheat in Mexico

Part V. Research Priorities on Subsistence Agriculture

14. The Issues and a Research Agenda

Index