Rural Livelihoods
Crises and Responses

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. This book draws upon a range of disciplinary approaches to the subject, including anthropology, sociology, economics, political economy, agricultural science, and development studies.

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.

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