peasant farming
Traditional rural cultivation
Peasant farming is small-scale agriculture where families work their own land primarily to feed themselves, selling any surplus locally.
The term implies traditional methods, limited mechanization, and plots too small for commercial efficiency.
It persists in much of the developing world: Peasant farming still dominates the rural economy in parts of Southeast Asia.
The phrase can carry either romantic connotations of self-sufficiency or dismissive overtones suggesting backwardness.
- harvest festivalsCelebrations of successful reaping
- food securityGuaranteed adequate nutrition access
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- seed savingPreserving plant material for replanting
- grain storesFacilities housing harvested cereals
planting season · market day · oral traditions · crop rotation · family plot · intercropping · rural poverty · soil fertility · barter economy · village commons · agrarian reform · composting · erosion control · microfinance · irrigation · mulching · seasonal rituals · hand tools
- pre-industrial lifeagriculture, handicrafts, traditional methods, manual labor, cottage industry
- farming culturestraditional agriculture, indigenous agriculture, crop cultivation, plant cultivation, animal husbandry
- farming historycrop rotation, enclosures, manorialism, threshing machine, open-field system
- farming systemssharecropping, plantation, ranch, ranching, monoculture
- labor systemsbonded labor, chattel slavery, child labor, compulsory labor, contract labor
- medieval farmingcrops, fallow land, plough, crop rotation, harvest
peasant farmingindustrial agriculture
Large-scale mechanized farming
agribusiness · commercial agriculture · factory farming · mechanized farming · corporate farming
peasant farmingplantation agriculture
Large-scale single-crop farming
collective farming · tenant farming · sharecropping · encomienda
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