In a time of great agricultural and rural change, the notion of 'multifunctionality' has remained under-theorized and poorly linked to wider debates in the social sciences. This book analyses the ...extent to which the proposed transition towards post-productivist agriculture holds up to scientific scrutiny, and proposes a modified productivist/non-productivist model that better encapsulates the complexity of agricultural and rural change. By combining existing notions and concepts, this book (re)conceptualizes agricultural change, creating a new transition theory, and a new way of looking at the future of agriculture.
This book explores the interrelated campaigns of agricultural collectivization in the USSR and in the communist dictatorships established in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. Despite the profound, ...long-term societal impact of collectivization, the subject has remained relatively underresearched. The volume combines detailed studies of collectivization in individual Eastern European states with issueoriented comparative perspectives at regional level. Based on novel primary sources, it proposes a reappraisal of the theoretical underpinnings and research agenda of studies on collectivization in Eastern Europe.The contributions provide up-to-date overviews of recent research in the field and promote new approaches to the topic, combining historical comparisons with studies of transnational transfers and entanglements.
Improving global integration of crop research Reynolds, M. P.; Braun, H. J.; Cavalieri, A. J. ...
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science),
01/2017, Letnik:
357, Številka:
6349
Journal Article
No processo de concepçâo e introduçâo das tecnologías de precisāo em meio agrícola, há uma desproporçâo entre os aspectos de produtividade esperada e a atençâo prestada aos seus usos e aos seus ...efeitos na saúde dos agricultores. É esta dinámica que a ergonomia tenta restabelecer através da análise da atividade de trabalho. Neste artigo, questionamos, através da ergonomia, a agricultura de precisāo, os recursos que esta oferece aos agricultores, bem como as limitaçöes que provoca no trabalho real. Por fim, propomos recorrer à análise da atividade a diferentes níveis para acompanhar os agricultores ñas escolhas que tém de fazer e pensar de forma diferente a conceçâo e desenvolvimento destas novas tecnologías.
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