This paper reviews major lines of theoretical and empirical research on farm household production choices in developing countries. It provides a wide-ranging literature review of different microeconomic approaches to peasant economy, shedding light on the underlying reasons that lead modern development economists away from the neoclassical framework to study “real people in real environments.” ...

Bolstering the political formation of agrarian organizations has become a priority for La Vía Campesina and Food Sovereignty Movement. This paper addresses Spanish case study Escuela de Acción (EAC)—(Peasant Action School), which is tool in Global North philosophical pedagogical principles “peasant pedagogies” Training Schools proposed by are put into practice within an organization Spain allia...

This article is part of a series to document the voices and perspectives La Via Campesina leaders for 50th Anniversary Journal Peasant Studies 30th Campesina. Yoon Geum Soon reflects on Korean women peasant organizing from local international level. She discusses resistance trade regimes, strategies rooted in peasants' daily lives, history trajectory movements Korea.

Under the combined effect of natural and social factors, in particular climate change, land disputes impoverishment populations, we are witnessing a proliferation gold panning sites most villages central northern Côte d’Ivoire. For some, is palliative for lack agricultural would reduce conflicts. others, this practice be factor quick enrichment, less painful than agriculture. Unfortunately, not...

Women represent a large part of the 2.5 billion people who depend on lands managed through customary, community-based tenure systems and are especially reliant commons for their lives livelihoods. They have very often limited unsecured access to land natural resources tend be excluded from decisions concerning them. Far representing homogenous group, they face varying challenges that result mul...

The Agricultural Reform Implementation Programme (ARIP), which was adopted under the aegis of a World Bank-financed Structural Adjustment Programme between 2001-2008, aimed to ‘lock in’ the neoliberal hegemony that had been developing in Turkey since the early 1980s by transforming the nation’s agrarian political economy. For hazelnut-producing petty peasant groups of the Black Sea Region, this...