Footnote:
In: Dove, Michael R. 1990. Review Article: Socio-Political Aspects of Home Gardens in Java. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies XXI(1)155-163
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 1990 erstellt
Description:
The home gardens of Java have been the subject of considerable interest in recent years. Their non-rice character has attracted the attention of those interested in diversification away from Southeast Asia's rice staple, their species diversity has attracted the attention of those interested in stable and sustainable agricultural systems, and their combination of woody and non-woody plants has attracted the attention of those interested in agroforestry. This recent attention has been disproportionate to the amount of research attention previously focused on home gardens, however. The colonial and post-colonial studies of this system of agriculture do not begin to equal, either in number or depth, those devoted to (e.g.) wet rice cultivation, the major estate and smallholder crops, or even upland swidden cultivation. Given this lacuna (the reasons for which are themselves of interest, as will be discussed below), the appearance of a major study of their agronomic, economic, and social aspects merits an in-depth appraisal. The study is "Pekarangan, Petani dan Kemiskinan: Suatu Studi tentang Sifat dan Hakekat Masyara kat Tani di Sriharjo Pedesaan Jawa" [Home Gardens, Farmers and Poverty: A Study of the Features and Facts of the Farming Community in Sriharjo, Rural Java] by D.H. Penny and Meneth Ginting