Russia's Unknown Agriculture
Subtitle: Household Production in Post-Socialist Rural Russia (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: September 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199227419
Subjects: Human Geography; Social Science; Sociology; Russia; Environmental Economics; Industries - General; Social Science / Human Geography; Agriculture; Economic aspects; Family farms; Russia (Federation)
Description: "Basing their findings on four years of research during which they studied rural districts drawn from a variety of contrasting regions of European Russia, the authors discuss the place of rural households in Russia's agri-food production system. They show that far from being solely concerned with 'survival' household plots in contemporary Russia are increasingly used to produce crops and livestock products for the market. In this book the authors describe the rich variety of forms that small and independent farming takes today; from highly localised clusters of cucumber or tomato producers to specialization in crop or animal husbandry at a higher spatial scale or associated with particular ethnic groups."--BOOK JACKET.