Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development

ISBN-13: 9781849713252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 334 str.

Stephen Devereux

Opis

Seasonality is a constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods, & a driver of poverty & hunger, particularly in the tropics. This text presents a systematic study of seasonality. It contains thematic chapters that explore recent shifts with profound implications for seasonality, including climate change, HIV/AIDS & social protection.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Editorial Introduction  2. Seasonal Poverty: Integrated, Overlooked and Therefore Opportunity  3. What Happened to the Seasons? Farmers' Perceptions and Meteorological Observations of Changing Seasonality  4. Seasonal Hunger, the 2001-03 Famine and the Dynamics of HIV in Malawi  5. Why Risk Management has Trouble Locating Seasonality  6. Conceptualising Seasonal Financial Market Failures in Rural Household Models  7. Investigating Seasonality and Poverty: The 2004/05 Malawi Integrated Household Survey  8. Month of Birth and Children's Health in India  9. Seasonal Dimensions of Household Wellbeing and Labour Migration in Rural Southern China  10. Off-farm Work in the Peruvian Altiplano: Seasonal and Geographic Considerations for Agricultural and Development Policies  11. The Stabilising Effect of Irrigation on Seasonal Expenditure: Evidence from Rural Andhra Pradesh  12. Food Affordability: Dealing with Seasonal Variation of Purchasing Power  13. Water-Bound Geographies of Seasonality: Investigating Seasonality, Water, and Wealth in Ethiopia through the Household Water Economy Approach  14. Livelihoods Impact Analysis and Seasonality in Ethiopia  15. Modelling Seasonality in the Household Economy Approach and for Individual Households  16. How Planning for Seasonality can Reduce Extreme Poverty: Lessons from the Chars Livelihoods Programme, Bangladesh  17. Seasonality and Access to Education in Sub-Saharan Africa