a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries). Informal: an ...

There's a really delightful little essay over at Salon about the trials and tribulations of someone trying to make a living as a small scale farmer. Her point being that despite the vast amounts of ...

Agrarian scholars have always had healthy controversial debates regarding what happens to peasants in capitalist society when capital fails, or is somehow slowed down, in penetrating peasant ...

I find the folks over at Counterpunch snarling at me because I said that it would be a good idea if those peasant farmers out there went bust and therefore went off to do something more productive. I ...

It's a long-held view in conservation circles that rural peasant activities are at odds with efforts to preserve biodiversity in the tropics. In fact, the opposite is often true, argue University of ...

Rising food prices — as the USDA has forecast for 2022 — may seem like a good thing for farmers. After all, who wouldn’t like to see some more cash? Farmers, like everyone else, have been through a ...

It appears Kenya might achieve a first in the World as a country where peasant farming is prohibited. The recent flood of proposals by government agencies tasked with policy development in the ...

Specially Appointed Professor of Theory of International Development, Theory of International Cooperation, and Theory of Project Management, Faculty of Economics, Chuo University 1. Economic ...