Title:	Agricultural Decision Making
Authors:	PEGGY F. BARLEJT
Keywords:	Economic anthropology Addresses, essays, lectures
Issue Date:	1980
Publisher:	Academic Press
Description:	This book is about farmers' decisions—what goes into them and what effects they have, once made. The chapters address the following questions: How do farmers choose what to plant and how to plant it? What are the important variables that determine agricultural decisions? How are these variables best measured and how do they interact? How do farmers' own conceptions of the choice process match psychological, economic, and mathematical models? What are the limitations and uses of such models? What implications do recent findings in this area have for agricultural development programs? The impacts of farmers' choices in agricultural production can be felt in diverse arenas. Individual farm decisions determine household profits and well-being, land use, capital requirements, and the adoption of new technology. They also affect such issues as prestige and leadership in the community and the long-term ecological stability of an area. These choices have implications for what products each nation has to export or to process and use domestically. Also affected are relationships between nations and such vital matters as their balance of payments and their ability to withstand poor weather, rising energy costs, or a rapidly growing population.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54588
ISBN:	0-12-078882-9
Appears in Collections:	Rural Development Studies

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