This special issue presents articles which explore how gender relations evolved in rural families in the context of the ongoing transformation of rural life at large and farming in specific related to the global trends of modernisation. The effects of modernisation on rurality are contextual. The case studies in this volume represent diverse patterns of modernisation along different paths to industrialisation (cases studies from Northern, highly industrialised versus Southern late industrialised countries) as well as along different paths to capitalism (see the case studies from post-socialist societies). Large-scale socioeconomic forces led to the transition and dissolution of the "traditional farm family". New forms of existence emerge for rural families complementing and even replaci...
...The mechanization of farming transformed family farms all the more i...
...In the 1920s mechanization had radically increased the net output of the farmm sector. By the 1950s, farming was becoming `industrialized' as on-farm inputs we...
This paper explores decision making processes in farm families with off farm working wives in post socialist Hungary based on an interview material with ten farm families. Decision making concerning issues of consumption and production is seen as a key arena for the articulation of gender relations within the farm family. Farm families with the husband being the head of the enterprise and the wife having an off farm wage labour constitute a specific case. Off farm incomes, in Hungary, played a crucial role in the capital accumulation phase of the farms. As previous research indicated, off farm incomes often constitute an integral part of the overall farm strategy. Off farm working wives contribute to the reproduction of the farm enterprise in diverse ways, such as through direct partici...
... by the patrilinear line of succession in farming, women's position as wives moving onto farms, the ... of women on farms following the mechanization and commercialization of farms (Almas and Haugen, ...
STUBBLE-burning is the dumbest thing farmers can do to their land but every year thousands of hectares go up in smoke. Each plume of smoke is undeniable proof that the stubble burner who set the fire doesn't understand how farming is dependent on soil fertility or how stubble and straw-burning destroys the very thing essential to crop production. It's hard to tell when farmers lost touch with the soil and became tractor drivers, mechanics and sprayer technicians, but it happened. No one with an understanding of the linkages between nutrient requirement for plant growth, soil fertility and the importance of the organic matter in soil structure burns stubble. They know that burning stubble in the fall just increased the fertilizer bill down the road. Stubble burners may also not be aware...
...Pre-mechanization farmers understood that straw and stubble not only...
..., the Swedish Royal Family and traditional farming families along the Finnish border) can own reindee.... The mechanization of modern reindeer management, including the elimi...
The article explores male and female farmers' practices and attitudes towards different aspects of nature and resource use in the context of the Norwegian system of summer farming (seterbruk). This represents a new and unique arena for exploring gender relations, as summer fanning in Norway -in contrast to many other European countries - has been an exclusively female arena. We ask whether men and women practice summer farming differently. We base our analysis on personal interviews with farmers and build upon some of the dimensions found in theories of the 'female principle' as conceptualized within feminism. Our main findings indicate that there are no evidential gender differences in attitudes and practices following the logic of biological sex, when considering nature and resource m...
... the overall rationalization and mechanization processes in agriculture, the decrease in numbers ...
With the acceleration of human's "Science and Technology Rejuvenation", more Breakthroughs have been made in the research area of high-tech agriculture around the world. Therefore, Chinese agriculture not only needs to be generalized in all-dimensions with modern features, but also requires innovations in the new-born post-industry. The thesis summarizes the current situation about Chinese modern agriculture combined with foreign experiences, so as to probe into the problems and find out relevant solutions in modern agriculture practice.
..., deep-processing technology and farming facilities so as to promote industrialized and mar... labor productivity through mechanization and scale expanding. For example, it adopts govern...
This research note examines the nature of rural women human capital in China. The study concludes that rural women human capital investment in China were constrained as a consequence of the interface of gender ideologies and social and economic structure constraints. The direction of future changes may depend on the level of involvement from external forces as well as internal adopted by Chinese rural women .
... non-market and non-payment, dull, arduous farming work and housework is extremely disadvantageous to...At the same time,agriculature mechanization threaten to displace increasing number of women fr...
For six years, [Robert Rhodes] and his family lived as "strangers among strangers." His brief memoir of the experience is an extended meditation on this singular existential predicament. He makes several references to Hutterite colonies in Manitoba which he visited. This book makes an interesting companion to Saskatchewan writer Mary-Ann Kirkby's bestselling 2007 memoir, I Am Hutterite, in which she chronicles her childhood on a Hutterite colony in Manitoba and her life after her parents left. Rhodes does not romanticize life on the Hutterite colony. "This place," he says, "was no utopia.
...A Christian sect, they live on large farming communes on the plains of the U.S. and Canada. He ...The Amish reject mechanization, while Hutterite farms employ up-to-date equipment...
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