Les « tracteurs du président » au Tchad : machines agricoles ou instrument politique ? by Ronan Mugelé

“…In particular, it sought to encourage the mechanisation and motorisation of peasant work through the dissemination of agricultural tractors through the TEAM programme, a technical partnership formalised with India. …”
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Parish schools of the Olonets diocese in the 19th – early 20th centuries by Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich

“…The development of the parish school system was based on comprehensive, including financial support from the Synod, representatives of local commercial structures and peasant communities. The development of the education system and the increasing complexity of the tasks facing it naturally led to the need for a comprehensive increase in the literacy of the parish clergy.…”
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Collectifs et développement durable des territoires ruraux en Amérique latine by Céline Raimbert, Nasser Rebaï

“…However, we observe at the same time a growing mobilization of peasant groups who claim a change of economic paradigm and a better recognition of family farming. …”
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Narrativas del conflicto y construcciones del pasado entre los q’eqchi’es: del relato de vida al mito by Agnès Bergeret

“…The analysis of a narrative on a Q’eqchi’ peasant’s legal and political struggle against the Hacienda, recounted to the ethnographer and compared with the version of a ladino, shows the innovations of the narrator, as he uses different narrative genres to create a hero who can give meaning to recent historical upheavals…”
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L’importance de la fonction écologique de la langue quechua by Marina Arratia Jiménez

“…This article is based on the research findings carried out in a Quechua speaking andean peasant community, located in a Bolivian geographical area where the greatest biodiversity of tubers is located. …”
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Eiffel et la météorologie by Peter, Martin

“…Meteorology must help the aviator, the peasant or the sailor. It is for men that Gustave works. …”
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Diversité, variabilité, connectivité : Mobiliser les savoirs locaux pour cultiver la biodiversité by Renzo d’Alessandro, Thierry Linck

“…Similarly, cultivated biodiversity relies on temporal and spatial patterns contrary to those of seed certification.Seeds peasant movements are based on similar values. It also evidences the limits of knowledge hybridization needed to cope with the erosion of biodiversity.…”
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Labourer la terre, tisser la vie. Éclats d’analogies dans les Andes sud-péruviennes by Ingrid Hall

“…The ethnographic datum analyzed in this paper concerns the cultivation of an irrigated plot in a peasant community of the South Peruvian Andes (Calca, Cusco). …”
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A review of The Political Economy of Agribusiness: A Critical Development Perspective by Nil Alt

“…Finally, Mendonça offers examples of rural resistance led by peasant and indigenous communities of Brazil and calls for sustainable and equitable agricultural practices, advocating for agrarian reform and food sovereignty. …”
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Sécurité et Développement by Agnès Bergeret

“…Our analysis is rooted in the study of a particular case – a municipality with a native and peasant majority – to show how the words of the public policies are traduced by the local actors in their configuration of the power struggle: Are revealed the links between violence, juridical evolution, monetarization and commoditization of the property of land.…”
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Processus d’intégration de villages périphériques dans le système d’approvisionnement de Bamako by Gwenaëlle Raton

“…The second question bears on the appropriation of this selling model by peasant communities and on the densification and extension of the resulting network. …”
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Défense et conservation de la biodiversité cultivée au-delà de la forme, de la couleur et de la performance by Álvaro Salgado Ramírez

“…The purpose of this article is to introduce to the current discussion on the conservation of Cultivated Biodiversity the cultural complexity that goes through these practices, and show the context of economic and political subordination in which peasant and native peoples perform it. Likewise, it is argued that public policies and in situ conservation actions have not significantly contributed to the preservation of Mexico´s cultivated diversity. …”
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D’une initiative locale à un essaimage national, l'histoire du développement du maïs en France by AgroBio Périgord

“…Within the “Cultivons la biodiversité en Nouvelle-Aquitaine” program, Agrobio Périgord works on experimentation, plant breeding and recovery of knowledge on peasant seeds.…”
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Los límites de la humanidad. El mito de los ch’ullpa en Marcapata (Quispicanchi), Perú by Pablo F. Sendón

“…This paper presents and discusses the myth of the ch’ullpa – beings of the pre-solar time – such as it is narrated by the members of the ayllu Collana from the district of Marcapata (province of Quispicanchi, Cusco) in relation to three kind of sources: a) the archaeological information about the geographical and spatial localization of the mortuary monuments which received that name in the Central Andes; b) the ethnological information about other versions of the myth registered among other indigenous-peasant populations from Southern Peru and the Bolivian altiplano; c) the ethnohistorical information which, in relation with the myth, has been registered by several scholars. …”
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À la recherche des « voix » des fallāhīn dans un dossier d’archives judiciaires égyptiennes by Anne Clément

“…Through the study of the legal file of Mikhīmar (a young fallāh or Egyptian peasant sentenced to death for murder in 1893), this article shows that an approach to the archives focusing on the material traces left by the process of composing and recomposing the file makes it possible to partially reconstruct the performance of the different actors of the legal process, and thereby helps to shed a new light on the colonial justice system at the turn of the 20th century. …”
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Le film du temps en Imerina (Madagascar) : dialogue entre lecture paysanne et lecture « scientifique » by Daniel Peyrusaubes

“…So, a double climatological approach is experimented: on one hand, based on the peasant vernacular knowledge, on the other hand, via a classic statistical study. …”
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De l’importance des structures collectives territorialisées pour consolider la viabilité des circuits alimentaires de proximité by Julien Noël, Christine Margetic, Florence Lanzi, Thomas Dogot, Kevin Maréchal

“…Our empirical approach is based on two case studies of food peasant cooperation, located in Ligurian region (Terroirs44) and Wallonia region (Paysans-Artisans). …”
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Prolétarisation incomplète et miracle économique chinois : entre héritage collectiviste et capitalisme transnational by Jean Mathieu

“…The interactions between those two social-property relations regimes have been at the foundation of China’s growth since 1978 by supplying to transnational capital an abundant workforce below its reproduction cost, but the ongoing peasant expropriation wave now threatens the stability of the Chinese growth regime.…”
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Paysans et mineurs. Quelques repères sur la mine comme agent de mutations sociales dans le monde rural andalou (xixe-xxe siècles) by Arón Cohen

“…Expansion of mining industry in contemporaneous Andalusia opened one of the scarce ways for many poor peasants to improve, even modestly, their material conditions of existence. …”
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Galice 1980-2022 : urbanisation et diversification économique du territoire by Rubén C. Lois González

“…In order to know the magnitude of the changes, we start with the characterization of the old agrarian complex, of the dominant peasant society in the region until the 1960s. The crisis of this traditional world, the rural exodus and the growth of the cities. …”
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