INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Commodification, Milkfish, Seagrass
5 Dec 2012
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Take home: 2 essays, one from mcallister, one from allemand, each essay 3 pages double spaced. Peasants are households which derive their livelihoods mainly from agriculture, utilize mainly family labour in farm production and are characterised by partial engagement in input and output markets which are often imperfect or incomplete . Rural village/community is not homogenous, or uniform: households divided by social differences: class, wealth, ethnicity, access to resources, land, political power, etc , demographic differences (dependency ration, different interests, different assets. Conventional understanding: hh as a unit of decision making, co-residence, shared food, shared resources. Coalition of players committed by choice or custom to act as a unit with respect to the rest of the world . Portfolio of activities (scale of individual or household: natural resource-based (or not, farm, off farm, non farm, urban rural linkages, resources beyond local. Adaptive to context: respond to shocks vs. trends, coping vs. adaptation. Various levels of vulnerability/resilience: substitutability and diversity important.
