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Young Farmers and the Dynamics of Agrarian Transition in China
For a transformative country like China that still has a large rural population and significant agricultural sector, the role of young farmers in the...
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Social Memory in the Mekong’s Changing Floodscapes: Narratives of Agrarian Communities’ Adaptation
Rural adaptation encompasses place-based perceptions, behaviors, livelihoods, and traditional ways of life associated with local environments. These...
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From Bimodal to Trimodal Agrarian Transformation: Agrarian Changes in Zimbabwe’s New Resettlement Areas Two Decades On
Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform resulted in unprecedented reconfiguration of the rural landscape. Beginning 2000, land acquisition and...
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Secondary Forests and Agrarian Transitions: Insights from Nepal and Peru
We provide an analytical contrast of the dynamics of secondary forest regeneration in Nepal and Peru framed by a set of common themes: land access,...
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Thirty Years of Agrarian Change at an Upper Elevation Village in Western Nepal
In 2016, I returned to Chimkhola, a village whose farming system I had studied in detail in the mid-1980s. Living conditions, child mortality,...
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Determinants of Fertility During the Fertility Transition in Estonia: A Spatial Analysis
The Princeton European Fertility Project famously studied the determinants of fertility transition using geographical data. The project, however,...
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Revisiting Enduring Labour Questions and Social Reproduction Dynamics in Rural Zimbabwe’s Post Land Reform Context: Implications on Citizen Welfare and Wellbeing
Enduring agrarian labour questions and social reproduction dynamics in former settler colonies like Zimbabwe have always been a subject of much...
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The Failing Aid Complex in Uganda’s Northeast
Every year about thirty billion dollars are spent on aid across Africa, yet recurrent crises followed by a blame game amongst different actors, and a...
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Implications of the Theory of Basic Human Values for the Second Demographic Transition: Interdependence and Individualism in the Era of Self-Fulfillment
I examine the implications of a modern psychological theory of values for the Second Demographic Transition (SDT). The SDT derives its values theory...
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The Demographic Transition: Fewer Deaths and Eventually Fewer Births
Most Western societies experienced profound mortality declines during the nineteenth century. Mortality later decreased in other parts of the world,...
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Households in Transition: Persistence and Change of Dwellings in the City of Old Dongola (Sudan, 14th–17th Century)
The period between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Old Dongola, Sudan, marks a significant political and religious transition. The...
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Peasant families and farm size in Fascist Italy
This article looks at the key factors affecting the connection between peasant family size and farm size in Italy in 1930–1931. The association...
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Livelihood transition and economic well-being in remote areas under the threat of cattle rustling in Nigeria
Livelihood diversification has been recognized as an important strategy applied by vulnerable households to cope and adapt with institutional...
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The Long March of the Brazilian Peasantry: Socioterritorial Movements, Conflicts and Agrarian Reform
The history which marks the long march of Brazilian peasants is written in the almost always bloody struggles of this social class. On covering it, I...
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Economic Reforms and the Rise of Milk Mega Farms in Vietnam: Governing the Post-socialist Transition
Over the past 30 years, major economic reforms have deeply impacted the Vietnamese agro-food sector. In this study, we use the concept of...
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Population Dynamics and the Environment: The Demo-climatic Transition
This chapter discusses how the evolution of environmental concerns, particularly Global Environmental Changes (GEC), has been mostly decoupled from...
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Smallholder Life in Transition
This chapter is a detailed account of peasant life and agriculture in Namtumbo, in southern Tanzania. The close interweaving of agricultural and...
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Population in Premodern Eastern Asia
Cases of revolutionary population growths and population collapses during the agrarian period are discussed. Population estimates for premodern...
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Socioeconomic and Demographic Transitions
Essential socioeconomic transitions including those to an agrarian society, a peasant society, an industrial society are discussed. Histories of...
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Can Farmers Management of Irrigation Systems Act Unfasten Agrarian Gender Order? Some Evidences from Tamil Nadu
In the backdrop of Participatory Irrigation ManagementParticipatory Irrigation Management (PIM) advancing genderGender/ Gender reforms/ Gender-based...