Russia's unknown agriculture : household production in post-communist Russia / Judith Pallot and T̀̀̀at ́yana Nefedova.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-214) and index.

Meeting Ana Petrovna and others -- The practice and theory of personal subsidiary farming in Soviet and Russian agriculture -- The geographical diversity of rural household production -- The environmental resources of rural people's farms -- Household production and the large farm sector -- Ethno-cultural differentiation in household production -- Household production's nearest neighbours : small and independent farming in the Russian countryside -- Household food production -- What next?

Print version record.

"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."--Jacket.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide