IDST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Commodification, The Surplus, Hectare

• School: Trent University
• Department: International Development Studies
• Course: IDST 2600
• Professor: Akram- Lodhi Haroon

Document Summary

Peasants are increasingly exposed to markets and money. Effects the workings of families (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) Each family is given small plots of land in the north (1988-04) 5 t/ha (1. 25t/. 25) farming is matching the guidelines maintaining the subsistence of its members. 04 = 2 people exit . 5/t surplus. One of the members that left is also sending money from their work (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) The surplus land (half hectare) is then used to produce flowers. Vnd 6,000,000/s: equivalent to 800 dollars surplus. They remained food secure and increased their cash by ten fold. Began to think about increasing their wealth even further. Allowed them to purchase more land and double their wealth. People with identical endowments of land begin to occupy different strata"s of power as they choose to delve further into their opportunities. Income growth is the major player (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3)