Add to ORKGThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Peasant Studies on 2009, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03066150903142998.World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development recommends that rural smallholders unable to compete in higher value production should exit agriculture. For the old and new landless, the way forward is wage labour in agriculture, in rural off farm work, or in urban areas. Disjunctively, the Report also proposes ‘farm-financed social welfare’ as a safety net when urban workers are ejected back to countryside at times of ‘urban shock’. My essay contrasts the Report's narrative about felicitous trajectories away from and back to the farm with the his...
Community/Rural/Urban Development, Food Security and Poverty, International Development,
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Agriculture used to be a way of life for most nations and is still is for many nations in the world ...
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New development paradigms come and go, seemingly with increasing rapidity, yet poverty remains the s...
The acceleration of out-migration from rural to urban areas has a negative impact on the productivit...
Despite ongoing urbanization, over 70% of the world's poor are located in rural areas (IFAD 2001). A...
countries, we examine household characteristics, asset bundles and income-generating activities of t...
The global community has committed, as the first priority of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs...
Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defectiv...
While development practicians tend to celebrate the renaissance of rural development, critical schol...
Many economists have argued that agricultural exports should be one of the best ways to reduce rural...
Community/Rural/Urban Development, Food Security and Poverty, International Development,
Compared to their urban counterparts, the rural poor are more likely to be employed, more apt to be ...
The article highlights the issues of the importance and features of land use of personal subsidiary ...
Agriculture used to be a way of life for most nations and is still is for many nations in the world ...
"Contrary to conventional economic theories, the relationship between income growth and the share of...
Agricultural development takes place within the wider context of overall economic development. In th...
Recent trends suggest that India might very well be at the “tipping point” of the transition in its ...
New development paradigms come and go, seemingly with increasing rapidity, yet poverty remains the s...
The acceleration of out-migration from rural to urban areas has a negative impact on the productivit...
Despite ongoing urbanization, over 70% of the world's poor are located in rural areas (IFAD 2001). A...
countries, we examine household characteristics, asset bundles and income-generating activities of t...
The global community has committed, as the first priority of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs...
Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defectiv...
While development practicians tend to celebrate the renaissance of rural development, critical schol...
Many economists have argued that agricultural exports should be one of the best ways to reduce rural...
Community/Rural/Urban Development, Food Security and Poverty, International Development,
Compared to their urban counterparts, the rural poor are more likely to be employed, more apt to be ...
The article highlights the issues of the importance and features of land use of personal subsidiary ...