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The new peasantries : struggles for autonomy and sustainability in an era of empire and globalization / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg.

By: Publication details: London ; Routledge, 2009.Description: xx, 356 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781844078820
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5663 PLO
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Contents:
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
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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