Farm Management In Peasant Agriculture
Michael Collinson
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- English
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Farm Management In Peasant Agriculture
Michael Collinson
About This Book
First published in 1972, Farm Management in Peasant Agriculture remains the only detailed discussion of on-site research techniques for economists working on the development of small-holder agriculture in Africa. Part 1 describes the conditions of the agricultural sector within which the African peasant farmer must operate, and then outlines an approach to farm management tailored to those conditions. Part 2 sets out the research planning and investigation tasks implied by the approach. Survey techniques, as well as the value of a pre-survey for understanding general attributes of a farm system, are reviewed, and alternative data-collection methods are elaborated. Part 3 shows how research data can be used in planning content for extension programs. Dr. Collinson concludes with the details of a planning method that interpolates changes in farm practice into a model of the existing farm system and that projects a sequence of changes, representing a sequence of extension content, on the basis of farmer acceptability.
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- LIST OF FIGURES
- LIST OF ACTIVITY CODES
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
- PART I: CONDITIONS IN AFRICAN PEASANT AGRICULTURE AFFECTING THE APPLICATION OF FARM MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
- PART II: THE INVESTIGATION PHASE
- PART III: PLANNING EXTENSION STRATEGY AND CONTENT
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- POSTSCRIPT
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHOR