Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses

Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-19-877335-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 657 g

This book is concerned with the question of how people in developing countries survive, and how their lives have been affected by the great changes since the Second World War.

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. Frequently, both economic stagnation and economic growth are translated into suffering for those who live in the countryside. Many people are aware that there is a crisis of livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa, but the understanding of that crisis
rarely transcends simple conceptions of food or environmental crisis or the inadequacy of states: the ubiquity of crisis is rarely comprehended.

This book addresses the pressing question of rural poverty. 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. It describes the great processes of agrarian transformation which have fundamentally altered rural livelihoods in developing countries and identifies some of the dilemmas for public action which arise from agrarian transformation and the crises of
rural livelihoods.

The contributors draw upon a range of disciplinary approaches to the subject, including anthropology, sociology, economics, political economy, agricultural science, and development studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernstein, Henry

Crow, Ben

Johnson, Hazel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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