ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Land Law, Industrial Revolution
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Involves continuous use of the same land and resources. Domesticated animals plowing, transport, organic fertilizer. Indigenous knowledge: local knowledge about the environment (plants, animals and resources, declining rapidly, completely lost. More labour inputs destruction of important habitats, rain forests. Non sustainable: also undermines other systems, critical cost of agriculture. Farmers produce mainly to support themselves but also produce goods for sale in the market system. Linked to urban markets (wealthy or poor) Ploughing, planting seeds, cutting, caring, irrigation systems. Land rights can be bought or sold. Men = bulk of labour (male dominated) Women children hyp incompatible with child care. Women and food processing hyp child care and increase fertility in farm families. Land investments protected by property rights. Rights to land acquired or sold. Capital intensive means using machinery and purchased inputs as processed fertilizers for human and animal labour: decline in family farm. Corporate farms produce goods solely for sale and owned by companies: reliant of hired labour.
