Download or read book Urban Dependency written by Gregory M. Fulkerson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Dependency investigates the risks of urban populations that cannot survive without the massive consumption of basic rural products like food, textiles, fossil fuels, and other energy-rich goods that are harvested by a shrinking rural base. Thomas and Fulkerson argue that though essential, rural workers and communities are poorly compensated for their labor that is both dangerous and highly exploitative. While the rural population is already shrinking, the authors predict that harsh political-economic conditions will only fuel further rural-urban migration, worsening the problem of urban dependency. The authors apply their theory of the energy economy to explore a balance between the supply and demand of energy resources that promotes rural justice.
Download or read book A History of Farming Systems Research written by Michael P. Collinson and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed history of farming systems research (FSR). While it includes the application of FSR to developed country agriculture, its main focus is on FSR in its original role, with small scale, resource-poor farmers in less developed countries. There are some 40 contributions from nearly 50 contributors from 20 countries, illustrating both the diversity and yet the coherence of FSR. The five parts of the book cover: (1) FSR - understanding farmers and their farming (FSR origins and perspectives; understanding farming systems); (2) the applications of farming systems research (FSR in technology choice and development; FSR in extension and policy formulation); (3) institutional commitment to FSR (FSR: some institutional experiences in national agricultural research; dimensions of the organization of FSR; training for FSR); (4) FSR: the professional dimension (regional and international associations; FSR and the professional disciplines); and (5) cutting edge methods, abiding issues and the future for FSR.
Download or read book Rural Conditions and Trends written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries written by Fingani Annie Mphande and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the effects of rural livelihood and the impact of infectious diseases on health and poverty. It explores cultures and traditions in developing countries and their role in infectious-disease management and prevention. It highlights the associated healthcare systems and how these have contributed to some of the challenges faced, and goes on to elaborate on the significance of community involvement in infectious-disease prevention, management and control. It also emphasizes the importance of surveillance and setting up strategies on infectious-disease management that are favourable for poor communities and developing countries. Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries allows students, researchers, healthcare workers, stakeholders and governments to better understand the vicious cycle of health, poverty and livelihoods in developing countries and to develop strategies that can work better in these regions.
Download or read book Understanding livelihoods dependent on inland fisheries in Bangladesh and Southeast Asia final technical report written by and published by WorldFish. This book was released on with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knowing Nature written by Mara J. Goldman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development.
Download or read book The Dependent Economy written by Mats Ove Lundahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to analyze Lesotho's prospects for economic advancement, and examines the influence of the policies and economic development of South Africa on Lesotho's own potential for development.
Download or read book Farming Systems and Poverty written by John A. Dixon and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Download or read book Agriculture and Poverty in Commodity dependent African Countries written by Alexander Sarris and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to provide a robust empirical basis for the design of agricultural and rural development strategies effective in reducing rural poverty in Africa, and key issues discussed include the role of agricultural technology and factor market constraints. The analysis is based on surveys of farm households in Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash-crop growing regions in the United Republic of Tanzania, one of the world's poorest countries.
Download or read book Farming dependent Counties and the Financial Well being of Farm Operator Households written by Mary Ahearn and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Development of Rural Household Economy written by Qinghua Shi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the transition of hundreds of rural households in ten villages in Zhejiang from 1986 to 2002, based on the theme of rural household sustainable development. Drawing on a large amount of first-hand data collected from fixed observation sites for 17 consecutive years, this book has depicted the changes in household behaviour in rural Zhejiang, and analysed the origins of such changes. The contents of the book contain examinations at household and village level. Chapters One to Seven describe the changes in rural behaviour at the household level from different aspects, such as land transfer, saving and borrowing, and rural tax burden. Chapters Eight to Ten analyse the transition concerning household behaviour based on the village level data. This book will help readers with a better understanding of rural China from the micro perspective of household behaviour. This book won the Monograph Award (ranked 1st out of 6 winners in total) in the Third China Rural Development Research Award (2008). It was also awarded theSecond Class Excellent Research Achievement in Humanities and Social Sciences by the Ministry of Education (2009). With the help of rich and detailed first-hand data collected from fixed observation sites in ten villages in Zhejiang for 17 consecutive years, this book gives a panoramic analysis of Chinese rural society in transition from the viewpoint of rural household behaviour. It starts the examination from individual rural households, before develops the investigation to the whole villages, so that the study could be carried out in a coherent, reliable and systematic way. Viewing the countryside from its micro perspective under the national political economy framework, the book steps out of the traditional way of inspecting exclusively the rural households and therefore is able to generalise its conclusion at a macro level. The award selection panel in 2008 believed it a unique monography for understanding the macro transition of the Chinese “agriculture, countryside and peasant (三农)” issues from the micro aspect of household behaviour.
Download or read book Urbanormativity written by Gregory M. Fulkerson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates urbanormativity—a concept that privileges urban normalcy and desirability over rural deviance and undesirability. The “reality” section outlines its foundations—urbanization, urban-rural systems, and urban dependency. The “representation” section explores urbanormative culture by considering cultural capital, media, and identity. The last section, “everyday life,” examines urban-rural disparities in law and politics and in life within different communities. It concludes by calling for a rural justice approach that will revalue the rural.
Download or read book Energy and the Aged a Challenge to the Quality of Life in a Time of Declining Energy Availability written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Special Committee on Aging written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor in the Rural Household Economy of the Zairian Basin written by Tshikala B. Tshibaka and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a survey of 132 households in three rural areas conducted in 1982 and 1983.
Download or read book CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT written by Sabang Sajanikanta Mahavidyalaya, Lutunia, West Bengal. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the impacts of climate change will be a vital task in developed as well as in developingcountries because of many interdependent physical, biological and chemical processes are ongoing inearth and human systems. These processes can be affected by change in climate, causing an effect onnatural resources (water resources, forest products, etc.), on biodiversity, ecosystem services and onplants in general, some positive and on others negative effects, such as, altering biophysical relationship,shrinking of habitats, desertification and general shift in natural world.Warming directly affects rate of plant respiration, photosynthesis, and other biogeochemicalprocesses. For instance, enhanced CO2 concentration can increase photosynthetic rate especially for plantsgrowing under warm and dry condition such as C3 plants. Naturally, plants have their own mechanism totolerate a certain level of increased temperature.
Download or read book Employment options and challenges for rural households in Malawi An agriculture and rural employment analysis of the fifth Malawi Integrated Household Survey 2019 10 written by Benson, Todd and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malawi has suffered from weak economic growth since its independence in 1964. Over 50 percentof the population live below the poverty line, unable to produce enough or to otherwise obtain sufficient income to meet all of their basic needs. Poverty is concentrated in rural areas. Smallholder agriculture dominates employment in rural Malawi. However, with continuing population growth, the average landholding size for smallholder farming households is declining, resulting in many being unable to produce sufficient food to meet their own needs. To escape poverty, rural households increasingly must diversify their sources of income, but many lack the human and financial capital to do so. In this report, a detailed examination is provided of the agricultural production, non-farm employment patterns, and overall incomes obtained by farming households across Malawi using data from the fifth Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS5), conducted in 2019/20. The analysis demonstrates that most poor farming households will never be able to escape poverty through their farming alone, even with substantially higher crop productivity. Rainfed cropping remains the primary form of agricultural production for farming households in Malawi. While increasing numbers are engaging in irrigated farming during the dry season, the returns from such farming are inconsistent and low. More importantly, off-farm income sources, particularly temporary ganyu wage employment, are now critical to the livelihoods of most rural households, particularly those with small cropland holdings. The common assumption that agriculture is at the center of the livelihoods of rural households across Malawi no longer holds. Of equal importance is their ability to obtain sufficiently remunerative off-farm employment. In developing strategies for rural economic and human development in Malawi, accelerating agricultural production growth, particularly through increased productivity, and increasing the returns to farming are necessary, but incomplete solutions. Equal attention must now be paid to how workers in farming households can also qualify for and obtain good off-farm jobs. Without increases in such employment opportunities, the economies of most rural communities across Malawi are likely to stagnate and poverty will deepen among households living in them.
