Lundahl, Mats — Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti (1979) Source Information

Lundahl, Mats — Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti (1979) Source Information Author: Mats Lundahl Full Title: Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti Publisher: Croom Helm (London) / St. Martin's Press (New York) Year: 1979 Type: Secondary Source — economic history, agrarian structure, peasant household economy, cooperative labor, market systems, land fragmentation PDF: ~/dev/rasin/data/sources/secondary_sources/annas_archive_new/lundahl-peasants-and-poverty-haiti.pdf Status Text extracted: Yes (PDF) Review pass: Targeted extraction 2026-04-13 — focused on konbit, madan sara, coffee decline, land fragmentation, and peasant household economy Chapter notes: lundahl peasants and poverty haiti ch notes Overview Peasants and Poverty is Lundahl's first major work on Haiti, preceding The Haitian Economy (1983) by four years. It is more comprehensive in scope than the later book — a sustained economic analysis of the Haitian peasant sector organized around the thesis that rural incomes have been falling cumulatively through a linked set of mechanisms: population growth, soil erosion, land fragmentation, agricultural involution, and the progressive disappearance of cooperative labor institutions.