Farm Management In Peasant Agriculture

Michael Collinson

• Editorial: CRC Press
• Año: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780429716287
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Biological Sciences
• Categoría: Biology

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.

Índice

• 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