{"title":"Jim Handy","description":"\u003cp\u003eJim Handy explores the intricate forces shaping our modern world, offering insightful perspectives on political dynamics and societal shifts. His writing delves into the mechanisms that drive abundance and scarcity, inviting readers to reconsider assumptions about economic and social progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect thoughtful analysis presented with clarity and depth, where complex ideas in \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e are made accessible without losing nuance. Handy’s work challenges and informs, making it essential reading for those interested in understanding contemporary challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tiny-engines-of-abundance-by-jim-handy-9781773635217","title":"Tiny Engines of Abundance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers, and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories provide us with pictures of carefully limited needs, of sustainable livelihoods, and of resilient self-reliance attacked relentlessly and mercilessly in the name of capital, progress, development, modernity, and\/or the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor two hundred years we have been told that the hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of hungry mouths require that peasants be dispossessed to allow more industrious farmers to feed them. This book helps make it clear how wrong we have been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandy's approach is original, and the book will engage people interested in the history of the peasantry, rural development, and the quest for food sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTiny Engines of Abundance\u003c\/em\u003e offers insightful perspectives for those keen on understanding the dynamics of sustainable agriculture and food systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471855960300,"sku":"9781773635217","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781773635217-tiny-engines-of-abundance.jpg?v=1775260488"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jim-handy.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}