Comparative farming systems

Part 1. Introduction. Turner, Brush, Purpose, Classification, and Organization. Brush, Turner, Nature of Farming Systems and Views of Their Change. Part 2. Paleotechnic and Consumption-Oriented Systems. Beckerman, Amazonia Swidden. Ewell, Merrill-Sands, The Milpa and Its Alternatives in the Maya Peasant Economy of Yucatan. Kunstadter, Swiddeners in Transition: Lua Farmers in Northwestern Thailand. Richards, Upland and Swamp Rice Farming in Sierra Leone: An Evolutionary Transition. Part 3. Mixed Technic and Production Systems. Ashby, Pachico, Agricultural Ecology in the Mid-Hills of Nepal. Hopkins, Irrigation, Mechanized Agriculture, and the State: The Case of an Upper Egyptian Village. Leaf, Intensification in Peasant Farming, Punjab in the Green Revolution. Ali, Intensive Paddy and Garden Agriculture in Bangladesh: Change in Shyampur Village. Part 4. Neotechnic and…