From london@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu Thu Apr 6 20:18:29 PDT 1995 >From london@sunsite.unc.edu Thu Apr 6 20:18:28 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA00592; Thu, 6 Apr 95 20:18:28 -0700 Received: from calypso-2.oit.unc.edu by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA00797; Thu, 6 Apr 95 20:18:25 -0700 Received: by sunsite.oit.unc.edu (5.x/TAS/11-16-88/Jones Hack) id AA25457; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 23:11:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 23:11:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: subsistence economics analysis? (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 16:57:05 -0500 (EST) From: VBERMAN54@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU To: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." Subject: Re: subsistence economics analysis? (fwd) isabel, I am very interested in your study. I am a graduate student at the Tufts Agriculture, Food and Environment program. I can not offer information but hope that you share your results so that we can hear about it via the net. Thanks. Virginia Berman On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 6 Apr 95 07:54:56 -0700 > >From: Isabel M Sohn > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: subsistence economics analysis? > > Hello, > > I will start my research project in two communitites in Veracruz and Yucatan, > in Mexico,that deals with biological management of soil fertility for corn > based agricultural systems in subsistence communitites. The research will > include a economcial analysis of three selected families in each communities > and sociocultural study to identify indigenous strategies dealing with soil > fertility and the goals for the production systems to set up the hypothesis and > bases for on farm participatory experimentation to create alternatives to the > prevailing slash and burn system (in most cases including the use of tropical > legumes). During the two following growing cycles we will follow soil organic > matter dynamics and nitrogen availability in all systems. > > My question now is about the economical analysis. Is there a standard > analytical model for describing the economics in subsistence farming systems? > What would you recommend that I measure the economics in a not very complicated > way to serve as setting for the project? I intend to do participatory > observation and semistructured interviews for the sociocultural part. > > I really appreciate your comments and suggestions. > > Thanks you. > > Isabel Sohn > sohn.8@osu.edu .