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This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi. It explores the relationship between the people of the Shire Highlands and the natural landscape - in all its diversity and dynamic complexity. It is an ethnographic study focussing specifically on the peasant-smallholders of the Highlands, who constitute around 80 per cent of the current population and their complex, multi-faceted relationship to the land and its diverse biota. This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi. It explores the relationship between the people of the Shire Highlands and the natural landscape - in all its diversity and dynamic complexity. It is an ethnographic study focussing specifically on the peasant-smallholders of the Highlands, who constitute around 80 per cent of the current population and their complex, multi-faceted relationship to the land and its diverse biota.

Farms, Small.

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Cet essai prend en compte les témoignages écrits par des hommes et des femmes œuvrant dans une exploitation agricole entre 1730 et 1830. Ces « écrits paysans » nuancent et enrichissent l'image dévoilée par les sources habituelles. Ils attestent le rôle des sentiments et des émotions dans la gestion des domaines agricoles. Lire la suite Cet essai prend en compte les témoignages écrits, en France, en Suisse romande et en Wallonie à la fin de la période préindustrielle, par des hommes et des femmes œuvrant dans une exploitation agricole, à titre d'employés, de locataires ou de propriétaires. Ces « écrits paysans » nuancent et enrichissent l’image dévoilée par les sources habituelles (notariées, administratives, judiciaires, agronomiques, etc.), sur la marche des exploitations agricoles et les principaux aspects afférents : commercialisation, productions et main-d’oeuvre ; ils attestent le rôle non négligeable des sentiments et des émotions dans la gestion des domaines agricoles entre 1730 et 1830. Le modèle théorique de l’homo œconomicus, encore majoritaire dans l’historiographie, est ainsi complété par celui de l’homo inquietus ruralis. Un sentiment d’inquiétude – la crainte de pertes financières, de la réprobation de Dieu et du qu’en-dira-t-on – paraît influencer au quotidien les prises de décision au sein des unités de production. Cette inquiétude vient donc pondérer le modèle de l’homo œconomicus, dont la conduite froide et égoïste serait dictée par la recherche constante du profit. Les pressions économiques, sociales, morales, religieuses, a fortiori psychologiques, qui s’exercent simultanément, révèlent in fine la complexité des dynamiques de fonctionnement de l’exploitation agricole, dans l’espace francophone au xviiie et au début du xixe siècle.

Agriculture --- Farms --- Agricultural innovations --- Agricultural laborers --- History

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"Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture: Improving Livelihoods and Sustainability is an invaluable resource focussing on the current state of knowledge and scientific advances about the complex and intertwined issues of innovation and how they relate to livelihood of small-scale farmers. This book exposes readers with a holistic overview on how agriculture is most associated with the development and transfer of technologies to farmers and their participation in research and development initiatives to improve the relevancy and usefulness of its outputs and innovation which is not well documented. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including: Recent scientific advances on agricultural innovations for small farmers. Emphasizes on opportunities and constraints of techno-institutional paradigms. Highlight low-cost and eco-friendly interventions. Case studies on various innovations in agriculture spanning the different agricultural gamut"--

Agricultural innovations. --- Farms, Small. --- Sustainable agriculture.

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Sustainable agriculture. --- Farms, Small. --- Small farms --- Small holdings (Agriculture) --- Small-scale agriculture --- Farms, Size of --- Family farms --- Low-input agriculture --- Low-input sustainable agriculture --- Lower input agriculture --- Resource-efficient agriculture --- Sustainable farming --- Agriculture --- Alternative agriculture

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Sustainable agriculture. --- Farms, Small. --- Small farms --- Small holdings (Agriculture) --- Small-scale agriculture --- Farms, Size of --- Family farms --- Low-input agriculture --- Low-input sustainable agriculture --- Lower input agriculture --- Resource-efficient agriculture --- Sustainable farming --- Agriculture --- Alternative agriculture