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Socioeconomics of Agriculture.

Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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