This book consists of five chapters that focus on recent agricultural policy. Chapter one argues that adaptation and householdsâ responses to changes in the environment are complicated by the fact that human actions do not occur in a social vacuum and are often mediated by a variety of historical and social factors, which are socially embedded. Chapter two explores the significance of wage employment to rural livelihoods and how the enduring formal unemployment crisis, witnessed since the 1990s, has affected peasant agriculture. Based on an application of Mancur Olsonâs collective action...