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The new peasantries : struggles for autonomy and sustainability in an era of empire and globalization /

Ploeg, Jan Douwe van der

The new peasantries : struggles for autonomy and sustainability in an era of empire and globalization / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg. - London ; Routledge, 2009. - xx, 356 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene 1 Chapter 2: What, Then, Is the Peasantry 17 Chapter 3: Catacaos: Repeasanitization in Latin America 53 Chapter 4: Parmalat: European Examples of a Food Empire 87 Chapter 5: Peasants and Entrepreneurs (Parma Revisited) 113 Chapter 6: Rural Development European Expressions of Repeasanization 151 Chapter 7: Striving for Autonomy at Higher Levels of Aggregation: Territorial Co-Operatives 181 Chapter 8: Tamed Hedgerows, a Global Cow and a Bug 211 Chapter 9: Empire, Food and Farming: A Synthesis 253 Chapter 10: The Peasant Principle 261 Notes 289 References 319 Index 347

9781844078820

2008011072


Peasants.
Agricultural systems.

305.5663 PLO