When Local Comes to Town: Governing Local Agriculture in the South Carolina Lowcountry

The South Carolina Lowcountry—the coastal region centered on Charleston—has developed a vibrant local food system over the past several decades. This article examines the role of governance institutions in cultivating local-market farmers and the broader agricultural landscape. It argues that the region’s institutions of agricultural governance produce a farmer characterized by “entrepreneurial nostalgia”—put simply, the articulation of entrepreneurial and nostalgic subjects. This farmer subjectivity in many ways fits within what is generally deemed a neoliberal mode of being, yet this article also emphasizes, contrary to much of the work on neoliberalism, the racial politics of such a subject position. Entrepreneurial nostalgia not only emphasizes individualism and the marketing of the self but it does so in a way that aligns with both colorblind and liberal-multicultural forms of racism. The article closes by reflecting on potential openings for reworking this farmer subjectivity.     

‘More soy on fewer farms’ in Paraguay: challenging neoliberal agriculture's claims to sustainability

The knowledge claims of sustainable commodity discourses are often presented as ‘fact’ in policy debates. Such claims, however, are better understood as coproduced with neoliberal values and power, in the context of ‘more soy on fewer farms’ – the concentration of land and productive resources – in Paraguay. I analyze five claims that link ‘responsible soy’ to reduced deforestation, good agricultural practices, national economic growth, increased food security and public participation in soy governance. I examine ways in which each of these claims is contingent and contested. With an explicit commitment to equity, I argue that alternatives to ‘responsible soy’, that include rather than exclude small-scale producers in Paraguay's agricultural development trajectory, are likely to culminate in stronger claims to sustainability by redressing the equity issues that have been marginalized by neoliberal agriculture.     

农业行政执法问题研究(上)

本文是作者整个研究成果的第一部分 ,主要是对当前我国农业行政执法形势的总估价 ,提出存在的主要问题及其原因分析     

试析邓小平关于农业、农村和农民问题的思想

邓小平同志指出 ,农业是根本 ,必须牢固树立以农业为基础的思想。农村稳定是中国稳定的基础 ,没有农村的小康 ,就没有全国的小康。邓小平同志关于调动和保护农民积极性的思想核心是在经济上切实维护农民的物质利益 ,在政治上充分保障农民的民主权利     

宁夏休闲农业发展研究

休闲农业推动了农业发展方式的转变和农村产业结构优化升级,成为统筹城乡发展、建设美丽宁夏的重要组成部分。     

Varieties of Social Policy by Other Means: Lessons for Comparative Welfare State Research

Abstract

Scholars can take a broader look at social policy and understand that traditional public welfare state programs are only one of the many potential sources of social protection and regulation. The contributions of this special issue invite social policy scholars to explore policy instruments that provide “social policy by other means” across a wide array of areas, including agriculture, energy, immigration, taxation, and legal regulation of private benefits and services. The article provides a concise overview of some of the key theoretical and empirical implications of social policy by other means for comparative welfare state research. In order to do this, it is divided into two main sections, which respectively discuss the nature and boundaries of social policy and the varieties of social policy by other means. This is followed by a short conclusion, which summarizes the key lessons of this special issue for comparative welfare state research.     

我国农村生态文明建设情况管窥--以“中央一号文件”为研究对象

生态文明建设,是我们党历来高度重视的一项战略任务与重要工作。新中国成立后,特别是改革开放以来,建设农村生态文明一直是党中央发展"三农"工作、解决"三农"问题的重要方面。其中,一个最突出的表现就是我们党历年所颁发的事关"三农"工作"中央一号文件",它凸显了我们党围绕农村生态文明建设所进行的顶层设计、决策部署和政策演进,也是各地区各部门做好农村生态文明建设工作的具体指导和根本遵循。     

农村人口变迁对农业家庭经营的影响与法律对策

作为农村社会变迁的重要组成部分,农村人口变迁主要包括人口数量、结构、质量、心理素质以及思想观念等方面的变化。在新的历史时期,我国农村人口的变迁呈现出独特的趋势。农村人口各个方面的变迁会对农业家庭经营产生重要而又深远的影响,因此,必须重视农村人口变迁的趋势及其影响,着力调整计划生育、农村就业以及农村公共产品供给等方面的法律制度,确保我国农业家庭经营获得健康发展。     

Retrenchment of Social Policy by Other Means: A Comparison of Agricultural and Housing Policy in Turkey

Abstract

In many low- and middle-income countries, conventional welfare state institutions provide social protection only for the formally employed. In contrast, the rural and urban poor are often protected by “social policy by other means”. Based on a comparative analysis of two major unconventional welfare programs in Turkey, agricultural state support and access to squatter housing, this article explains retrenchment of social policy by other means. Agricultural retrenchment was the result of coercive policy transfer from international organizations in a post-crisis context, while the retrenchment of squatter housing was driven by domestic political entrepreneurs responding to decreases in the availability of urban land and the number of informal squatters. In both cases, retrenchment became politically sustainable due to functional replacement with more conventional welfare programs. This analysis challenges the narrow focus of mainstream welfare state research, provides an explanation of retrenchment of social policy by other means, and enhances our understanding of Turkey’s uneven welfare state development.     

信息化条件下农业生产成本与产业结构调整关系研究

农业产业结构调整是我国农业应对国际国内市场竞争、实现健康快速发展的一项长期战略任务,但农业产业结构调整受多种因素的约束,信息化程度便是其中之一。理论及实证分析证明,信息化能有效降低农业产业结构调整中的各种成本,使农民在结构调整中获得更大的收益,进而加快农业产业结构调整的步伐。