Hoe-farming
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Hoe-farming is a collective term for certain forms of agriculture. In the farming of some early societies, and in some traditional cultures of the recent times or the near past, the tillage was done with simple manual tools like digging stick or hoe, for example seeding was done manually by making hole for the seeds, putting them inside, then covering them.
The precursor to hoe-farming may be intensive gathering.[1] As for its future, it does not necessarily “become superseded” by applying plough and animal traction, because also ecological factors are very important.[2] Even the prevalence of tsetse fly can matter. Also cultural factors can be considered (for example the local belief system can contain taboos against animal traction).[3]
Hoe-farming often coincides with long fallow systems and shifting cultivation, contrasted to permanent plough-based cultivation systems and the intensification of agriculture.[4] Hoe-farming may contain slash and burn clearance techniques, but it is not a necessity.[5] It is usually embedded in the logic of subsistence agriculture.
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A traditional area of hoe-farming (“Hackbaugürtel”) included Sub-Saharan Africa, India and the Malay Archipelago, middle parts of Americas.[6] Presumably early forms of agriculture were much more widespread in the past, but could remain dominant against the spread of intensive farming mainly in the tropics.
The Isanzu were hoe-farming people (while the neighboring Hadzabe kept on living as hunter-gatherers).[7]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Nagy Olivérné & Ortutay Gyula (eds) (1977–1982) (see online in Hungarian)
- ^ Ökonomische Anthropologie — Fragen: question 33 (see online in German)
- ^ IFAD, Uganda women: section “Animal Draught Power” (see online)
- ^ Pingali & Bigot & Binswanger & 1987: section “Introduction and Policy Overview”, pp. 1, 4 (see online)
- ^ Kienzle 2003 (see online)
- ^ Ziller 1974 (see online in German)
- ^ Kohl-Larsen 1956: 13–14
[edit] References
- "Women's farm implements in Uganda". International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations. http://www.ifad.org/gender/learning/sector/agriculture/69.htm.
- Kienzle, Josef (May 2003). "Labour Saving Technologies and Practices for Farming and Household Activities in Eastern and Southern Africa". Pretoria, South Africa. http://www.sarpn.org.za/mitigation_of_HIV_AIDS/m0012/index.php.
- Kohl-Larsen, Ludwig (1956) (in German). Das Elefantenspiel. Mythen, Riesen und Stammessagen. Volkserzählungen der Tindiga. Eisenach • Kassel: Erich Röth-Verlag. The book is a collection of Hadzabe myths about giants, also some tribe myths about culture heroes, and anecdotical tales.
- Nagy Olivérné & Ortutay Gyula (eds) (1977–1982). "Földművelés" (in Hungarian). Magyar Néprajzi Lexikon. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. Title means Hungarian Ethnological Lexicon, item means “Cultivation”.
- "Ökonomische Anthropologie — Fragen" (in German) (PDF). http://www.pensis.net/documente/12schriftlichearbeiten_Ethno/oekonomische.anthropologie-Fragen-Luci-250104.pdf.
- Pingali, Prabhu; Bigot, Yves; Binswanger, Hans P. (1987) (plain text). Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Baltimore • London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-3502-X. http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/04/05/000178830_98101911020037/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt.
- Ziller, Reinhart (1974) (in German) (PDF). Der Pflug. Geschichtliche Entwicklung und praktische Anwendung. Stuttgart. http://www.schulgarten.ch/texte/Pflug.pdf. The title means: The plough. Historical development and practical application.
[edit] External links
- "Women's farm implements in Uganda". International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations. http://www.ifad.org/gender/learning/sector/agriculture/69.htm.
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