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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Capitalism and family farming -- 2 Structural transformation and farming -- 3 Urbanization and agrarian change: a view from the margins -- 4 What you might like to know about regression -- 5 Drivers of agrarian transformation -- 6 Volatility in land distribution -- 7 Relative change in income -- 8 Conclusion: no place for family farms? -- Appendix 1: Data sources -- Appendix 2: Multilevel modelling with MLWin -- Appendix 3: Detailed model results and analyses of residuals -- Appendix 4: Descriptive statistics -- References -- Index

This book investigates how the changed agricultural policy climate affected government policies in the nine countries studied already as part of the preceding project: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. By repeating the cross-sectional survey made in over 100 villages in 2002 and converting it into a panel, it is possible to trace village- and household-level effects of agricultural policies and other macro-level processes. The book consists of 14 chapters most of which revolve around studies on each of the nine case study countries.

This is a review article of Michael Kearney's Reconceptualizing the peasantry: Anthropology in a global perspective. The article argues that Kearney is right on one score: the peasantry needs to be reconceptualized, and has long needed reconceptualization, since the very term 'peasant' is ethnocentric amd since it is too easily coupled with an evolutionist or modernist research programme. Rural sociology would do better with an analytical model of family farming as a core concept. Such a concpet would open up for comparative and historical studies of agrarian (and non‐agrarian) societies, and would hopefully help us to systematize what we already know about farmers worldwide. To argue, as Kearney does, that peasants must exit as 'ploybians' enter the historical scene is misplaced and mistaken on a number of counts. It is misplaced methodologically, because it means committing what the author terms the epochal fallacy. It is mistaken empirically, because pluriactivity in various forms, including seasonal migration, has long been a feature of agrarian societies.

This is a study of landlordism, agricultural labourers, and the State of Andalusia in southern Spain. This region, a classical case of landlordism, deviates from the typically West European agrarian structure dominated by the family farm. Andalusia's history centers on the conflict over land between a majority of landless peasants and a minority of powerful landlords, which was one of the main causes of the Spanish civil war. This study deals with two periods covering nearly fifty years of this latifundist system and its conflictridden relations of production. It examines the freezing of the agrarian structure for nearly forty years by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and the adaptation of social and agrarian policy for the next ten years by the socialists. In other words, this is the story of how the agricultural laborers of Andalusia were transformed in less than one-half century from "peasants without land" to "clients of the welfare state" dependent on the social policies of the state.

Models for Non-Modelers focuses not on how to design models, but on how to understand and critically appraise them. Data and statistical models are widely used in disciplines such as epidemiology, climate science and systems design, but it can be difficult for those without the necessary training to understand and implement them