THE PARAGUAYAN CONTEXT OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Paraguay is the most agrarian of Latin American countries. Approximately 40 percent of its 6.5 million residents live in rural areas. Of these, 60 percent are smallholders who cultivate between 1 and 10 hectares of land, often practicing swidden agriculture and using animal traction to till the soil...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser:	MARCELA VÁSQUEZ-LEÓN
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agricultural cooperatives Agricultural economics Agricultural geography Agricultural land Agricultural management Agricultural organizations Agricultural sciences Agriculture Agronomy Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Collective farms Cooperation Crops Economic disciplines Economics Farm economics Farm exports Farming Farming systems Farmlands Farms Human behavior Human societies Land economics Lower class Peasant agriculture Peasant class Social behavior Social classes Social dynamics Social inequality Social interaction Social stratification Social structures Sociology
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Tags:	Tag hinzufügen Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!

Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:	Paraguay is the most agrarian of Latin American countries. Approximately 40 percent of its 6.5 million residents live in rural areas. Of these, 60 percent are smallholders who cultivate between 1 and 10 hectares of land, often practicing swidden agriculture and using animal traction to till the soil. Even though they occupy only 4 percent of the total agricultural land, these nearly 230,000 small farms generate over one third of the total value of national agricultural production and produce around 75 percent of the country’s staple foods, making a significant contribution to food security (Sorrenson et al. 1998; IICA 2004;