Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses

ISBN-13: 9780198773351 / Angielski

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Opis

Throughout large parts of the developing world rural livelihoods are in crisis. Even in those parts of the third world where there has been growth of food output, that growth has rarely been translated into a commensurate expansion of livelihoods. This book examines how people in developing countries survive, and how their lives have been affected by the great changes since the Second World War. It examines the diverse human implications of rural change, the various crises of rural livelihoods which arise from change, and the survival strategies of individuals and households. The book describes the great processes of agrarian transformation which have fundamentally altered rural livelihoods in developing countries, identifying some of the dilemmas for public action which arise from agrarian transformation and the crises of rural livelihoods. The contributors draw on a range of disciplinary approaches to the subject--including anthropology, sociology, economics, political economy, agricultural science, and development studies.

Recenzje

...attractively produced book...the authors have done valuable service in introducing the contemporary literature in an accessible way to a student audience; and in producing a text which so firmly counters the persisting myth that rural economies are dominated by 'small farmers'

Spis treści

Henry Bernstein: Who are the Rural Poor?; Henry Bernstein: Agrarian Structure and Change; Henry Bernstein Rural Livelihoods: Approaches and Issues; Kate Crehan: Rural Livelihoods and Rural Households; Kate Crehan: Differentiation and Survival: Households through Time; Krishna Bharadwaj: Growth with Hunger in South Asia; Philip Woodhouse: Social and Environmental Change in Sub-Saharan Africa; Mahmood Mamdani: Accumulation, Political Struggle, and Ecological Crisis; Tim Allen: Health; Hazel Johnson: Socialist Experiences of Rural Development; Ben Crow: Actions from Above; Henry Bernstein: Actions from Below