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Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018

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ISBN 9783319741406

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Print version: Mann, Stefan Socioeconomics of Agriculture Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2018 ISBN 9783319741406

Intro -- Contents -- 1 What Is This Book Good for? -- 1.1 Approaches Towards Socioeconomics -- 1.2 The Interaction Approach -- 1.3 The Diversity Approach -- 1.4 Why Agriculture? -- 1.5 And Why Socioeconomics? -- References -- 2 Agricultural Hierarchies -- 2.1 Public: The Agricultural Administration -- 2.1.1 Weber’s Iron Cage -- 2.1.2 Niskanen’s Bureaucrat -- 2.1.3 Principal-Agent Issues -- 2.1.4 New Public Management (NPM) -- 2.1.5 Production Economics -- 2.2 Commercial: Power in the Chain -- 2.2.1 Getting Started: Price Transmission -- 2.2.2 The Special Case of Land Grabbing -- 2.2.3 Vertical Integration -- 2.3 Private: Powerful Families -- 2.3.1 Inter-gender Relationships -- 2.3.2 Inter-generation Relationships -- 2.4 Concluding Thoughts on Hierarchy -- References -- 3 Agricultural Markets -- 3.1 Occupational Choices -- 3.1.1 Identity and Environment -- 3.1.2 Part-Time Farming -- 3.1.3 Employed on a Farm -- 3.1.4 Alpine Summers -- 3.1.5 The Activity Choice Model -- 3.2 Residential Choices -- 3.2.1 The Tiebout Model and Its Limits -- 3.2.2 Policy and Politics of Rural Development -- 3.2.3 Turning Points in Village Developments -- 3.2.4 Core Factors for Rural Areas -- 3.3 Production and Consumption Choices -- 3.3.1 Organic Production and Consumption -- 3.3.2 Genetically Modified Organisms -- 3.3.3 More on Non-consumption -- References -- 4 Agricultural Cooperation -- 4.1 Producing Jointly -- 4.1.1 Alpine Grassland -- 4.1.2 African Pastoralism -- 4.1.3 The Kibbutzim -- 4.1.4 Water Management -- 4.2 Linking with Consumers -- 4.2.1 Cooperatives -- 4.2.2 Fair Trade -- 4.2.3 Community-Supported Agriculture -- 4.3 Governing Sustainability -- 4.3.1 The History of the Concept -- 4.3.2 Roundtables and the like -- 4.3.3 Socioeconomic Sustainability Revisited -- 4.4 Concluding Thoughts on Cooperation -- References -- 5 Agricultural System.

5.1 Producer Perspectives -- 5.1.1 The Changing Environments of Farmers -- 5.1.2 Empirical Results About Self-perception -- 5.2 Population Perspectives -- 5.2.1 The Role as Residents -- 5.2.2 The Role as Consumers -- 5.2.3 The Role as Citizens -- 5.3 Varieties of Capitalist Agriculture -- 5.3.1 Selection of Variables -- 5.3.2 Processing of Variables -- 5.3.3 Results -- 5.3.4 Discussion and Conclusion -- 5.4 Concluding Thoughts on Agricultural Systems -- References.

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Contents // 1 What Is This Book Good for? ... 1 // 1.1 Approaches Towards Socioeconomics ... 1 // 1.2 The Interaction Approach ... 3 // 1.3 The Diversity Approach... 8 // 1.4 Why Agriculture? ... 10 // 1.5 And Why Socioeconomics? ... 11 // References... 12 // 2 Agricultural Hierarchies... 15 // 2.1 Public: The Agricultural Administration ... 15 // 2.1.1 Weber’s Iron Cage... 16 // 2.1.2 Niskanen’s Bureaucrat... 17 // 2.1.3 Principal-Agent Issues... 18 // 2.1.4 New Public Management (NPM)... 21 // 2.1.5 Production Economics... 21 // 2.2 Commercial: Power in the Chain ... 23 // 2.2.1 Getting Started: Price Transmission... 23 // 2.2.2 The Special Case of Land Grabbing... 24 // 2.2.3 Vertical Integration... 26 // 2.3 Private: Powerful Families... 28 // 2.3.1 Inter-gender Relationships... 29 // 2.3.2 Inter-generation Relationships... 31 // 2.4 Concluding Thoughts on Hierarchy ... 37 // References... 37 // 3 Agricultural Markets... 41 // 3.1 Occupational Choices ... 41 // 3.1.1 Identity and Environment... 42 // 3.1.2 Part-Time Farming... 43 // V // vi Contents // 3.1.3 Employed on a Farm... 44 // 3.1.4 Alpine Summers... 45 // 3.1.5 The Activity Choice Model... 46 // 3.2 Residential Choices... 49 // 3.2.1 The Tiebout Model and Its Limits... 50 // 3.2.2 Policy and Politics of Rural Development... 51 // 3.2.3 Turning Points in Village Developments... 52 // 3.2.4 Core Factors for Rural Areas... 53 // 3.3 Production and Consumption Choices... 55 // 3.3.1 Organic Production and Consumption...

55 // 3.3.2 Genetically Modified Organisms... 57 // 3.3.3 More on Non-consumption... 61 // References... 62 // 4 Agricultural Cooperation... 65 // 4.1 Producing Jointly ... 65 // 4.1.1 Alpine Grassland... 66 // 4.1.2 African Pastoralism... 68 // 4.1.3 The Kibbutzim... 70 // 4.1.4 Water Management... 71 // 4.2 Linking with Consumers ... 72 // 4.2.1 Cooperatives... 72 // 4.2.2 Fair Trade... 75 // 4.2.3 Community-Supported Agriculture... 76 // 4.3 Governing Sustainability ... 77 // 4.3.1 The History of the Concept... 78 // 4.3.2 Roundtables and the like... 79 // 4.3.3 Socioeconomic Sustainability Revisited... 81 // 4.4 Concluding Thoughts on Cooperation... 83 // References... 83 // 5 Agricultural System... 87 // 5.1 Producer Perspectives ... 87 // 5.1.1 The Changing Environments of Farmers... 88 // 5.1.2 Empirical Results About Self-perception... 90 // 5.2 Population Perspectives ... 92 // 5.2.1 The Role as Residents... 92 // 5.2.2 The Role as Consumers... 93 // 5.2.3 The Role as Citizens... 95 // 5.3 Varieties of Capitalist Agriculture... 96 // 5.3.1 Selection of Variables... 97 // 5.3.2 Processing of Variables... 99 // Contents // vii // 5.3.3 Results... 100 // 5.3.4 Discussion and Conclusion... 101 // 5.4 Concluding Thoughts on Agricultural Systems ... 102 // References... 103

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