ABSTRACT
This chapter compares the peasant and entrepreneurial modes of farming as co-existing realities. It analyses the two as socio-material realities that simultaneously operate alongside each other within one and the same set of ecological, institutional and politico-economic conditions. The chapter shows that entrepreneurial agriculture is increasingly running up against limits and that far from being the remedy—it is actually the main problem. By contrast, the framework of entrepreneurship relies more on external indicators as its guiding main beacons. The modernization of farming assumed, and brought, externalization: many of the subtasks that once formed an integral part of the process of production were shifted towards, and/or taken over by, external institutes and market agencies. The basic difference between the peasant and the entrepreneurial modes of farming resides in the degree of autonomy that is built into the resource base.
