Innovations in a Plantation Economy: A Study of the Barbadian Small Farmer

Jamal Khan and Richard B. Knight
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Jamal Khan: Department of Management Studies, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Richard B. Knight: Department of Management Studies, University of the West Indies, Barbados

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, 1997, vol. 6, issue 1, 87-98

Abstract: This study examines innovations in small farm agriculture by looking at the extent of technological change in the plantation economy of Barbados. It seeks to establish that small farmer innovations in Barbados are not based on indigenous knowledge, but on imported technology and, as a result, the farming system has moved from a low external input and sustainable agriculture (LEISA) to high external input agriculture (HEIA). The authors observe a shift in small farmer entrepreneurship from the hawker system towards marketing cooperatives.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1177/097135579700600106

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