Abstract On the basis of eight available terriers a large royal estate Niepołomice in southern Poland and vital records two parishes located on its area, all dating from early eighteenth century, this article examines effect famines economic situation both feudal lords their peasant tenants. The restrictive framework second serfdom did not prevent severe mortality crises at time triggered by cr...

The problem of agriculture was one the central issues in scientific and, later, political activities Dragoljub Jovanović. His understanding importance agriculture, as well diagnosing problems that village, a territorial unit and peasant, basic economic entity, face is an important basis for analyzing both past present Serbian agriculture. answer to dilemma about its development opportunity, or ...

The notion of ‘appropriate technology’ (AT) is universally seen as emanating from the writing and activities of the economist Fritz Schumacher. In fact, the term that Schumacher himself used was ‘intermediate technology’ and derived from visits he paid to India and Burma in the late 1950s and early 1960s in his capacity as senior economist to the British National Coal Board, invited to advise t...

B etween 2001 and 2003 the rural population of Malawi experienced widespread hunger. During the same time period, Malawi's HIV prevalence was the eighth highest in the world (UNAIDS 2004). Speculation about the links between famine and the HIV/AIDS epidemic followed. De Waal and White-side (2003) postulated that a " new variant famine " had arisen among a rural population made more vulnerable t...

Recent research (re)emphasizing the role of the state and the institutional perspective generally neglects socialist economies. At the same time, feminist studies on migration rarely focus on mobility in transitional contexts. Informed by these two bodies of literature, this paper examines how the post-Mao state in China has fostered a migrant labor regime and the incorporation of young, single...