{"product_id":"peasant-poverty-and-persistence-9781783608447","title":"Peasant Poverty and Persistence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. Boltvinik\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Zed Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Developing \u0026amp; Emerging Countries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeasants are a majority of the world's poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. \u003ci\u003ePeasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-first Century\u003c\/i\u003e provides a much-needed critical perspective linking three central questions: Why has peasantry, unlike other areas of non-capitalist production, persisted? Why are the vast majority of peasants poor? And how are these two questions related? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterweaving contributions from various disciplines, the book provides a range of responses, offering new theoretical, historical and policy perspectives on this peasant 'world drama'. Scholars from both South and North argue that, in order to find the policy paths required to overcome peasants' misery, we need a seismic transformation in social thought, to which they make important contributions. They are convinced that we must build upon the peasant economy's advantages over agricultural capitalism in meeting the challenges of feeding the growing world population while sustaining the environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStructured to encourage debate among authors and mutual learning, \u003ci\u003ePeasant Poverty and Persistence\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader on an intellectual journey toward understanding the peasantry.","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45085687054487,"sku":"9781783608447","price":11478.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781783608447.webp?v=1767142853","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/peasant-poverty-and-persistence-9781783608447","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}