Socioeconomics of Agriculture.

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Main Author: Mann, Stefan.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Economics Series
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- 1 What Is This Book Good for? -- 1.1 Approaches Towards Socioeconomics -- 1.2 The Interaction Approach -- 1.3 The Diversity Approach -- 1.4 Why Agriculture? -- 1.5 And Why Socioeconomics? -- References -- 2 Agricultural Hierarchies -- 2.1 Public: The Agricultural Administration -- 2.1.1 Weber's Iron Cage -- 2.1.2 Niskanen's Bureaucrat -- 2.1.3 Principal-Agent Issues -- 2.1.4 New Public Management (NPM) -- 2.1.5 Production Economics -- 2.2 Commercial: Power in the Chain -- 2.2.1 Getting Started: Price Transmission -- 2.2.2 The Special Case of Land Grabbing -- 2.2.3 Vertical Integration -- 2.3 Private: Powerful Families -- 2.3.1 Inter-gender Relationships -- 2.3.2 Inter-generation Relationships -- 2.4 Concluding Thoughts on Hierarchy -- References -- 3 Agricultural Markets -- 3.1 Occupational Choices -- 3.1.1 Identity and Environment -- 3.1.2 Part-Time Farming -- 3.1.3 Employed on a Farm -- 3.1.4 Alpine Summers -- 3.1.5 The Activity Choice Model -- 3.2 Residential Choices -- 3.2.1 The Tiebout Model and Its Limits -- 3.2.2 Policy and Politics of Rural Development -- 3.2.3 Turning Points in Village Developments -- 3.2.4 Core Factors for Rural Areas -- 3.3 Production and Consumption Choices -- 3.3.1 Organic Production and Consumption -- 3.3.2 Genetically Modified Organisms -- 3.3.3 More on Non-consumption -- References -- 4 Agricultural Cooperation -- 4.1 Producing Jointly -- 4.1.1 Alpine Grassland -- 4.1.2 African Pastoralism -- 4.1.3 The Kibbutzim -- 4.1.4 Water Management -- 4.2 Linking with Consumers -- 4.2.1 Cooperatives -- 4.2.2 Fair Trade -- 4.2.3 Community-Supported Agriculture -- 4.3 Governing Sustainability -- 4.3.1 The History of the Concept -- 4.3.2 Roundtables and the like -- 4.3.3 Socioeconomic Sustainability Revisited -- 4.4 Concluding Thoughts on Cooperation -- References -- 5 Agricultural System. 
505 8 |a 5.1 Producer Perspectives -- 5.1.1 The Changing Environments of Farmers -- 5.1.2 Empirical Results About Self-perception -- 5.2 Population Perspectives -- 5.2.1 The Role as Residents -- 5.2.2 The Role as Consumers -- 5.2.3 The Role as Citizens -- 5.3 Varieties of Capitalist Agriculture -- 5.3.1 Selection of Variables -- 5.3.2 Processing of Variables -- 5.3.3 Results -- 5.3.4 Discussion and Conclusion -- 5.4 Concluding Thoughts on Agricultural Systems -- References. 
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