Sustainability and peasant farming systems

Bradley, P.N.
Carter, S.E.
Campbelll, B.M.

1994

C1871
333.72

91-88116-98-0

This paper looks at the problems of attempting to ask whether peasant systems are sustainable. While there is need for more rigorous analysis of sustainability issues, there is a limited outlook for an approach based on indicators. There are problems of extrapolating results from very detailed plot-based studies. Peasant systems are politically-guided management systems, whose boundaries are the state, not the field nor the farm...

DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE; MEDIO AMBIENTE; CULTIVOS; GRANJAS;