Data/hora: 01/06/2024 18:13:36

Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Coevolution: Agricultural Practices and Sustainability: Some Major Social and Ecological Issues
Autores: | Tisdell,   Clement A.
Data: | 2009-03-05
Ano: | 1999
Palavras-chave: | Coevolution; Globalisation; Industrial/commercial agriculture; Property rights; Ecological systems; Social systems; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Resumo: | Outlines major social and ecological issues involved in the coevolution of social and ecological systems by initially reviewing relevant aspects of the recent literature relating to economic development and their implications for agricultural development.  Coevolutionary qualitative-type models are presented.  There has been a failure amongst advocates of structural adjustment policies (involving the extension of markets and economic globalisation) to take account of coevolutionary principles and allow for historical differences in the evolution of communities and their varied circumstances.  This lack of sensitivity has had unfortunate social and ecological consequences for some communities eg  The Russian Federation and subsistence agriculturalists in some less developed countries.  The evolution of globalized market systems involving industrial/commercial agriculture (largely dependent on inputs external to the farm) under the 'patronage' of oligopolistic suppliers is seen to increasingly threaten the balance between social and ecological systems and as undermining the sustainability of both.  Capitalistic processes of technological change eg advances in biotechnology, play a major role in this evolution
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

ISSN: 1327-8231

http://purl.umn.edu/47991

Relação:

University of Queensland&gt;School of Economics&gt;Economics, Ecology and Environment Working Papers

Economics, Ecology and the Environment Working Paper

34

Formato: | 19