It is important to identify the special characteristics of marketable surplus relations in a deficit village. Earlier studies have investigated the determinants of marketable surplus of subsistence ...

Human Organization is the journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the leading peer reviewed outlet for scholarship in the applied social sciences. The journal advances SfAA's mission ...

Agriculture is the leading industry in Africa—employing approximately 65% of the labor force—and is imperative for improving food security and addressing hunger. Since smallholder farmers generate up ...

The experience of the last decades in developing countries has shown that agricultural subsistence-oriented small landholdings, many of which are managed by women, have not benefited from trade ...

New photos reveal the secret lives of Amazonian crop-raiding animals. Researchers spent a year working with 47 Amazonian communities in the Juruá region of Amazonas, Brazil. They set up 132 ...