The Wisdom of Tradition in the Development of Dry-land Farming
Botswana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2499003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hoyt Alverson (Dartmouth College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Publication date | 1984-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.43.1.d2280888h38403pm |
| OpenAlex | W1995629686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 1 |
The present understanding of small-farm economies amongst Western aid donors consists of the belief that small-scale producers can be viewed as firms operating in an economic equilibrium of (1) constant technology, (2) constant output choices, (3) use of production factors as a function of their marginal productivity, (4) factor allocation at Pareto optimum, and (5) constant, necessary low productivity. The general presumption for raising the production function is deemed necessarily to consist of and institutional innovation. Case study material from small farms in Botswana show that (1) the prevalent micro-economic imputations listed above are seriously flawed and ideologically motivated: (2) technology transfer effected in Botswana is both unprofitable and destructive of numerous indigenous institutions: and (3) most importantly, the indigenous agricultural regime is capable of considerably greater production with changes in crop management practices and minor changes in the e
Agricultural development · Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Agronomy · Archaeology · Biology · Development economics · Dry land · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Natural resource economics · Political science · Rural development · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Environmental Science · Land Rights and Reforms
Ethnicity, tribalism and National unity
Farming systems development
Towards a grassroots approach to rural development in the third world
Teaching Technological Literacy in the Third World
The Reversal of Fortune Thesis Reconsidered
The Class Context of Agriculture in Botswana
Agricultural Sustainability and Traditional Agriculture
The agroecology of corn production in Tlaxcala, Mexico
An overview of irrigation development in some less‐developed countries of Africa
Food security and household labour
Household Gardens as a Development Strategy
The Class Context of Agriculture in Botswana
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 2012 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |