Contemporary Rural Development: Improving sustainable livelihoods in developing countries

ISBN-13: 9781138183018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 384 str.

Oliver Springate-Baginski;John McDonagh

Opis

This textbook summarises the main issues in contemporary rural development theory and practice to intermediate and advanced student level. It reviews key debates and issues, and explores the specific challenges for particular agricultural production systems. The main focus is on Asia and Africa, the areas of greatest rural poverty, with additional attention to Latin America as appropriate.

A key theme is the problem of poverty, which is predominantly a rural issue. It links this to rural livelihoods, and examines the major food production systems across the developing world or global south, including livestock and various cropping systems in agriculture, as well as agroforestry, forests, fisheries and pastoralism. A major feature of the book is its inter-disciplinary approach and combination of the natural science of resources and agricultural and food production systems, with social science analyses of issues such as justice, equity, food security, governance, market access and economics. This provides a unique synthesis to demonstrate the range of factors upon which rural livelihoods depend. "

Spis treści

Part 1: Overview  1. History and Key Issues in Rural Development  2. Understanding Rural Livelihoods  Part 2: Understanding the Major Natural Resource Based Production Systems and Livelihoods  3. The Diversity of Natural Resource-based Rural Livelihoods in the Global South  4. Tropical Lowlands and Irrigated Rice-based Systems  5. Dryland Cropping Systems and Livelihoods  6. Upland Cropping Systems  7. Livelihoods in Forested Landscapes and Agroforestry  8. Livestock and Pastoralism  9. Coastal Zones and Fisheries  10. Water and its Management  11. On-farm, Off-farm and Rural-Urban Issues  Part 3: Key Issues  12. Malnutrition, Food Poverty and Food Security  13. Markets, Value Chains, Globalization and Economic Transformation  14. Tenure and the Future of Small Farms  15. Social Dynamics in Rural Areas  16. Climate Change and Rural Development  17. The Contemporary Resource Crunch  18. Politics of Rural Development

O autorze

Oliver Springate-Baginski is a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK. 

John McDonagh is a Senior Lecturer and Head of School in the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK.