caa a22 4500 445806818 CHVBK 20180317145159.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9426-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9426-7 Rocha Jorge EGADE Business School, Monterrey, NL, Mexico aut Agricultural Intensification, Market Participation, and Household Demography in the Peruvian Andes [Elektronische Daten] [Jorge Rocha] The causes of agricultural intensification in a peasant community in the north central Andes are explored using a methodology derived from the tradition of Systems Ecology. Hypotheses derived from different research traditions—mainly development economics and anthropology—regarding the causes of intensification are integrated and evaluated for their relative effects. It is found that among the variables, household size is better at explaining the degree of intensity with which labor and technology are employed. The results suggest that technologically-driven agricultural intensification is generally forced upon households by the diminishing returns of their labor, and that this process is normally accompanied by increased financial debt for those peasant households who remain in agriculture and do not completely migrate to regional urban centers. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Systems ecology nationallicence Rural development nationallicence Sustainability nationallicence Peruvian Andes nationallicence Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/5(2011-10-01), 555-568 0300-7839 39:5<555 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9426-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9426-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rocha Jorge EGADE Business School, Monterrey, NL, Mexico aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/5(2011-10-01), 555-568 0300-7839 39:5<555 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer