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This study challenges the traditional image of peasants in developing economies as always passive to market forces. In this study of marketing upland crops in Indonesia the authors demonstrate active peasant participation and entrepreneurship in commercial and industrial activities. The peasant marketing system not only works as an effective bridge between farm producers and consumers but also produces significant employment and income in the rural sector. The Indonesian case suggests a genuine possibility of rural-based economic development in the third world.

Local marketing of agricultural products in developing economies is carried out mostly within the "informal sector". It is still common to assume that middlemen are a major block to agricultural and rural development and to rationalize government intervention into the market on that score. The authors attempt to investigate this problem through a case study of the local soybean market in a village in the Garut district of West Java. (DÜI-Sen)

Based on a field survey of a rain-fed village in West Java, the authors identify characteristics of rural organizations and group activities at the village level and examine the underlying factors which affect farmer's participation in group activities. They also analyse the conditions of group organization and how collective action is undertaken by village members. (DÜI-Sen)