Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Eric Thompson, Jamie Gillen, Jonathan Rigg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Andriesse, Edo,; Anh, Nguyen Tuan,; Cole, Robert,; Gillen, Jamie,; Hisyam Kamarudin, Khairul,; Hung, Po-Yi,; Ngah, Ibrahim,; Peou, Chivoin,; Rigg, Jonathan,; Shoji, Gen,; Soukkhy, Outhai,; Thompson, Eric C.,; Tubtim, Tubtim,; Wewalaarachchi, Sakunika,; Wijaya, Holi Bina,; Yokoyama, Satoshi,; Yoshida, Kunimitsu,; Young, Sokphea,
• HerausgeberIn: Gillen, Jamie,; Rigg, Jonathan,; Thompson, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Transforming Asia ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)

Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective provides the first multicountry, inter-disciplinary analysis of the single most important social and economic formation in the Asian countryside: the smallholder. Based on ten core country chapters, the volume describes and explains the persistence, transformations, functioning and future of the smallholder and smallholdings across East and Southeast Asia. As well as providing a source book for scholars working on agrarian change in the region, it also engages with a number of key current areas of debate, including: the nature and direction of the agrarian transition in Asia, and its distinctiveness vis à vis transitions in the global North; the persistence of the smallholder notwithstanding deep and rapid structural change; and the question of the efficiency and productivity of smallholder-based farming set against concerns over global and national food security.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective -- 1. Cambodia: Political Strife and Problematic Land Tenure -- 2. Indonesia: Whither Involution, Demographics, and Development? -- 3. Japan: Government Interventions and Part-time Family Farming -- 4. Laos: Responding to Pressures and Opportunities -- 5. Malaysia: The State of/in Village Agriculture -- 6. The Philippines: Fragmented Agriculture , Aquaculture, and Vulnerable Livelihoods -- 7. Singapore: Making Space for Farming -- 8. Taiwan: Toward the Revitalization of Smallholder Agriculture -- 9. Thailand: The Political Economy of Post-Peasant Agriculture -- 10. Vietnam: From Socialist Transformation to Reform -- Index