The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure.
"But industrialization offers new opportunities and hope, especially for people in rural areas displaced by agrarian change".
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Over the course of the last century, national policies for agrarian change focused successively on 'modernization,' agrarian reform, and integration into globalized markets and systems of production.
This contribution critically engages with the academic debate on de-agrarianisation which has gained common ground in political economy perspectives of agrarian change in South Africa.
In this paper, we highlight the Agrarian Change Project, a multi-disciplinary research initiative, that applies detailed socio-ecological methodologies in multi-functional landscapes, and assess the subsequent implications for conservation, livelihoods and food security.
We begin by documenting their early agricultural extension work, which attempted to spark agrarian change in the US South through the inculcation of modern habits and aspirations among farmers and their families.
The growing population remained overwhelmingly agrarian, but changes in farming practices made their efforts more efficient.
"The Origins of Political Order," by Francis Fukuyama (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $35) This ambitious and highly readable study draws on the disciplines of biology, anthropology, economics, and political philosophy to chart how various pre-eighteenth-century agrarian societies changed from kin-based tribal communities to societies characterized by an impersonal, merit-based bureaucracy.
By that time the social consequences of the agrarian and political changes inaugurated by Muḥammad ʿAlī were clearly appearing.
