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Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods: Smallholders Today
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This book brings together eleven works by scholars within and beyond geography, to argue the case for a continued engagement with smallholder agricultural studies. The research detailed is largely empirical and draws on a wide spectrum of mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The case studies cover a range of geographic locations, including Brazil, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Madagascar, Vietnam, and the USA, with greatest emphasis in sub-Saharan Africa. Key themes that emerge include the structural and relative nature of "smallholder" as a category, the dynamic reality of smallholder livelihoods, the importance of smallholder farming and land-use practices to questions of environmental sustainability, and the challenges of vulnerability and adaptation in contemporary human–environment systems. Overall these studies show that smallholder studies are more pertinent than ever, especially in the face of finite resources and global environmental change.
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Keywords
- adaptation
- Agriculture
- agroecology
- banking
- Climate Change
- diversification
- Economics, finance, business & management
- Finance
- Finance & accounting
- Forests
- Households
- land management practices
- Land tenure
- livelihoods
- Poverty
- production chains
- Smallholders
- sustainability
- vulnerability and resilience
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03842-343-0Editions