Contemporary Rural Development

Improving sustainable livelihoods in developing countries
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-138-18301-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Springate-Baginski, Oliver

McDonagh, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.