On mutual aid: citing Kropotkin’s use of that phrase (or presumably a Russian phrase so translated) is odd. If my next door neighbor and I help one another out, does that make us followers of Kropotkin? That was a standard move of anti-communists in the ’50s and 60s: to call anyone who agreed with communists on any issue a communist dupe.
La Via Campesina is an umbrella including 180 peasant organizations with a total of 200 million members. All followers of Kropotkin?
On productivity of small farms vs. larger ones see Peter Rosset’s paper at this link https://archive.foodfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/PB4-The-Multiple-Functions-and-Benefits-of-Small-Farm-Agriculture_Rosset.pdf.
Also https://grain.org/en/article/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland.
On mutual aid: citing Kropotkin’s use of that phrase (or presumably a Russian phrase so translated) is odd. If my next door neighbor and I help one another out, does that make us followers of Kropotkin? That was a standard move of anti-communists in the ’50s and 60s: to call anyone who agreed with communists on any issue a communist dupe.
La Via Campesina is an umbrella including 180 peasant organizations with a total of 200 million members. All followers of Kropotkin?