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Famine in Peasant Societies (Hardcover)
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Famine in Peasant Societies (Hardcover)
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In this controversial study, Seavoy offers a new approach to the
problem of periodic peacetime famine based on the actual behavior
of peasants. He maintains that it is possible to increase per
capita food production without massive and inappropriate
technological inputs. Seavoy shifts the focus from modern
development economics to a cultural and historical analysis of
subsistence agriculture in Western Europe (England and Ireland),
Indonesia, and India. From his survey of peasant civilization
practices in these countries, he generalizes on the social values
that create what he terms the subsistence compromise. In all of the
ages and culture, Seavoy finds a consistent social organization of
agriculture that produces identical results: seasonal hunger in
poor crop years and famine conditions in consecutive poor crop
years. He argues that economic policies have failed to increase per
capita food production because economists and government planners
try to apply market-oriented policies to populations that are not
commercially motivated. Once they understand the subsistence
compromise, policy-makers can take appropriate political action.
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