{"product_id":"fortress-farming-jeff-neilson-9781501780912","title":"Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFortress Farming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e identifies in Indonesia's rural coffee-growing regions an alternative livelihood strategy that is reshaping relationships with land and informing Indonesia's agrarian transition.\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Neilson presents \"fortress farming\" households as ones that are reluctant to embrace productivity-maximizing agriculture, even as they interact with commodity markets and powerful downstream companies. Rather, these households tenaciously maintain access to land as a last defense against insecurity in a precarious global economy, all the while actively tapping into off-farm income sources. Fortress farming confounds assumptions that the development process entails an inevitable transition away from the land and into city-based manufacturing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShifting away from production to take a fuller view of rural Indonesian coffee-growing communities, \u003ci\u003e Fortress Farming\u003c\/i\u003e explores how and why defensive farming strategies have emerged, and what these tendencies mean for our understanding of agrarian transition in late-industrializing countries in the early twenty-first century. Neilson posits that late-industrializing countries may never undergo a full agrarian transition: In the alternative livelihood practice of fortress farming, we see a way that local social institutions can resist, or at least modify, the productive forces of capitalist agriculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Neilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501780913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501780912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jeff Neilson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46685566566655,"sku":"9781501780912","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe40f2f5-cc3c-4912-ae43-6b7d29456b32.jpg?v=1741726136","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fortress-farming-jeff-neilson-9781501780912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}