TY  - BOOK
AU  - Claudia A. Radel (Ed.)
AU  - Jacqueline M. Vadjunec (Ed.)
AB  - This book brings together eleven works by scholars within and beyond geography, to argue the case for a continued engagement with smallholder agricultural studies. The research detailed is largely empirical and draws on a wide spectrum of mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The case studies cover a range of geographic locations, including Brazil, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Madagascar, Vietnam, and the USA, with greatest emphasis in sub-Saharan Africa. Key themes that emerge include the structural and relative nature of "smallholder" as a category, the dynamic reality of smallholder livelihoods, the importance of smallholder farming and land-use practices to questions of environmental sustainability, and the challenges of vulnerability and adaptation in contemporary human–environment systems. Overall these studies show that smallholder studies are more pertinent than ever, especially in the face of finite resources and global environmental change.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03842-343-0
ID  - OAPEN ID: 20566
KW  - agroecology
KW  - adaptation
KW  - land tenure
KW  - households
KW  - forests
KW  - sustainability
KW  - vulnerability and resilience
KW  - agriculture
KW  - smallholders
KW  - land management practices
KW  - production chains
KW  - livelihoods
KW  - diversification
KW  - poverty
KW  - climate change
L1  - http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/266
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42977
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9783038423430
SN  - 9783038423423
TI  - Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods: Smallholders Todaynull
ER  - 
