Development Studies Catalogue

Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries

Theory, Evidence and Policy

Edited by Carlos Oya, Nicola Pontara

Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

Poverty is still a serious global phenomenon, and remains concentrated in rural areas of developing countries. Much literature has been devoted to understanding the lives and prospects for small poor producers (smallholder farmers) and micro-entrepreneurs, but much less is known and written about...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

Women, Livestock Ownership and Markets

Bridging the Gender Gap in Eastern and Southern Africa

Edited by Jemimah Njuki, Pascal Sanginga

This book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household income management and...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

Agro-Ecological Intensification of Agricultural Systems in the African Highlands

Edited by Bernard Vanlauwe, Piet van Asten, Guy Blomme

With growing population and food security risks, there is an urgent need to increase sustainable agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. This book addresses the issue of agricultural intensification in the humid highland areas of Africa. Its framework is built on the activities...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

Interpreting Rurality

Multidisciplinary Approaches

Edited by Peter Somerville, Gary Bosworth

The British countryside is a national institution; most people aspire to live there, many people use it for leisure and recreation and we can all watch rural life played out on our television screen, read about it in novels or consume its imagery in art and cinematography. The aim of this book is...

To Be Published October 23rd 2013 by Routledge

Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe

Edited by Lionel Cliffe, Jocelyn Alexander, Ben Cousins, Rudo Gaidzanwa

Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the land was the focus of the African war of liberation war, and was partially modified following...

Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge

New Frontiers of Land Control

Edited by Nancy Peluso, Christian Lund

Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

Questions about land control have invigorated thinkers in agrarian studies and economic history since the nineteenth century. ‘Exclusion’, ‘alienation’, ‘expropriation’, ‘dispossession’, and ‘violence’ animate histories of land use, property rights, and territories. More recently, agrarian...

Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge

Agricultural Development in China and Africa

A Comparative Analysis

By Li Xiaoyun, Qi Gubo, Tang Lixia, Zhao Lixia, Jin Leshan, Guo Zhanfeng, Wu Jin

Many African countries are increasingly interested in learning from China's experiences in achieving effective agricultural development. The Chinese government and academic community are also keen to share experiences and lessons with Africa. China made agriculture one of its development assistance...

Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge

Water, Food and Poverty in River Basins

Defining the Limits

Edited by Myles Fisher, Simon Cook

Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7 billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over the edge. The findings from this book...

Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge

The Custodians of Biodiversity

Sharing Access to and Benefits of Genetic Resources

Edited by Manuel Ruiz, Ronnie Vernooy

Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. Many communities have to deal with 'biopiracy,' for example. As well, existing laws are usually unsuitable for protecting indigenous and traditional...

Published November 2nd 2011 by Routledge

Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Edited by Dominique Caouette, Sarah Turner

Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

Agrarian transformations, market integration and globalization processes are impacting upon rural Southeast Asia with increasingly complex and diverse consequences. In response, local inhabitants are devising a broad range of resistance measures that they feel will best protect or improve their...

Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge

Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry

Evidence from South America

Edited by Anthony Bebbington

Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

The extraction of minerals, oil and gas has a long and ambiguous history in development processes – in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Extraction has yielded wealth, regional identities and in some cases capital for industrialization. In other cases its main heritages have...

Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge

Public Policy and Agricultural Development

Edited by Ha-Joon Chang

Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

This book critically re-examines the currently dominant paradigm of agricultural development policy from historical and comparative perspectives. Examining the experiences of 11 developed countries in their earlier stages of development and the experiences of 10 developing and transition economies...

Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge

Markets and Rural Poverty

Upgrading in Value Chains

Edited by Jonathan Mitchell, Christopher Coles

This book explores the place of poor people within a rich variety of value chains, focusing upon lagging, rural regions in Africa and Asia, and how they can 'upgrade' within such chains. Upgrading is a key concept for value chain analysis and refers to the acquisition of technological capabilities...

Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge

Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy

Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities

By John G. McPeak, Peter D. Little, Cheryl R. Doss

Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land...

Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge