the present study was conducted to investigate qualitative and quantitative aspects of irrigated wheat production in three major farming systems i.e. peasant, commercial and cooperative systems in kordestan province. accordingly, seven basic hypotheses were tested. the data were drawn from individual interviews with 360 farmers who planted wheat in 2004-2005. the sample was selected using multi...

Peasant agriculture has been neglected as modern farming occupied its space in the production of basic foods. Exclusion of smallholders in LDCs is the outcome of declining prices for basic foods now produced and marketed globally by developed countries. This is an effect of globalization: it responds to advances in information technologies, communications, and biotechnology. Productivity gains ...

illuminating account of the "generational family" prevalent in Middle European peasant society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in which unlike England households typically comprised three generations living together, often under the same roof. The authors carefully distinguish this generational family from the largely mythological "stem family", and show its rootedness in the largel...

from Lamet, Hill Peasant in French Indochina

Peasant prospects today are matters of significant contention, not least regarding the question of the recomposition of the peasantry. The question of the peasantry’s future links to another longstanding debate about the trajectory of capitalism. This continues the Marxist/populist debate over peasant prospects anchored in Lenin’s claim that what Russian Narodniks viewed as peasant ‘differentia...

The prevailing opinion is that women of the Mediterranean cultural area occupied a second rate position in society. Excluded from activities in public life, on the whole they were pushed aside to devote themselves to activities in their homes. Fernand Braudel considers, moreover, that the evident attachment of women of the Mediterranean area to their households, is a civilisation-fact of partic...

Chayanov's model of the peasant economy is based on autarkic nuclear family households. Expansion to the more complex households and kin groups common in peasant societies shows that the sharp changes Chayanov observed in the consumer/producer ratio over the domestic cycle are smoothed by the intergenerational structure of complex households and extended kin groups. This amelioration may be ret...