{"product_id":"9781501780912-fortress-farming","title":"Fortress Farming","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAgrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFortress Farming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e identifies in Indonesia's rural coffee-growing regions an alternative livelihood strategy that is reshaping relationships with land and informing Indonesia's agrarian transition.\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Neilson presents \"fortress farming\" households as ones that are reluctant to embrace productivity-maximizing agriculture, even as they interact with commodity markets and powerful downstream companies. Rather, these households tenaciously maintain access to land as a last defense against insecurity in a precarious global economy, all the while actively tapping into off-farm income sources. Fortress farming confounds assumptions that the development process entails an inevitable transition away from the land and into city-based manufacturing. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShifting away from production to take a fuller view of rural Indonesian coffee-growing communities,\u003ci\u003e Fortress Farming\u003c\/i\u003e explores how and why defensive farming strategies have emerged, and what these tendencies mean for our understanding of agrarian transition in late-industrializing countries in the early twenty-first century. Neilson posits that late-industrializing countries may never undergo a full agrarian transition: In the alternative livelihood practice of fortress farming, we see a way that local social institutions can resist, or at least modify, the productive forces of capitalist agriculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55611219149174,"sku":"9781501780912","price":128.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36647526.jpg?v=1762374543","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781501780912-fortress-farming","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}