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China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society - Changing paradigms of farming (Paperback)
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China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society - Changing paradigms of farming (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes
in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved
to cities, and yet China has an immense challenge to feed a growing
and more affluent population. This book provides a 'bottom-up view'
of China's agriculture, showing how the many millions of Chinese
peasants make a living. It presents a vivid description of the
mechanisms used by rural households to defend and sustain their
livelihoods, increase their agricultural production and improve the
quality of their lives. The authors examine the newly emerging
trajectories of entrepreneurial and capitalist farming and assess
whether such alternatives will be able to meet the enormous social,
economic and environmental challenges that China faces. The book
also explores the paradigm that has underpinned the organisation
and development of China's agriculture from ancient times to the
present day. This shows the importance of balancing in the Chinese
model as compared to the one-sided imposition of continual
modernization in the western model. It is argued that such
balancing is at the core of the current Sannong policy, referring
to the three ruralities of food sovereignty, wellbeing for peasant
households and an attractive countryside.
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