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Author Sick, Deborah

Title Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (435 pages)
Series Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods
Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1. Rural livelihoods and processes of change; Introduction; (Re)defining 'rural' livelihoods; Re-valuing rural resources; Concluding remarks; References; 2. 'We will not farm like our fathers did': multilocational livelihoods, cellphones, and the continuing challenge of rural development in western Kenya; Introduction; Agrarian, environmental, and demographic change in Kenya; Rural livelihoods and diversification; Agrarian change and livelihood diversification
Rural non-farm economy and livelihoodsMigration and multilocational livelihoods; Site and methods; 'Every Kenyan is a farmer': land, identity, and intergenerational struggles in rural Kenya; Unequal access to land and household food security; Changing patterns of land inheritance and intergenerational tensions; The persistence of smallholder farming; 'This phone is my lifeline': cellphones, multilocational households, and changing roles; Off-farm activities' contributions to livelihoods in Ebusiloli; Multilocational households and 'telephone farmers'
The transformation of local agroecological knowledgeImplications for rural development and agrarian change; Notes; References; 3. The new face of the countryside: agriculture and generational livelihood strategies in rural Costa Rica; Introduction; Agriculture and rural livelihood diversification; Farming families in Pérez Zeledón; Livelihood diversification: in and out of agriculture; Exiting agriculture: wage labour and entrepreneurship; New avenues in agriculture; Coffee markets: gourmet, alternative, and organic; Domestic food markets
Occupational diversification within and among householdsConclusions: the changing face of a rural economy; Notes; References; 4. Maasai livelihood pathways in Kenya: macro-level factors in diversifying diversification; Introduction; Methods; Drivers of diversification; The spectrum of diversification; On the ends of the spectrum: four case studies; Ewuaso Kedong (EK); Maji Moto (MM); Enoosupukia (SP); Olchoronyori (CH); Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 5. A place that found its brand: Kyoto's agricultural economy in the twenty-first century; Introduction
The emergence of Kyoto's place brandsChanges to Kyoto's agricultural and culinary heritage; The place branding of Kyoto's agricultural and food products; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 6. Balancing conservation and over-exploitation: rural economies, protected areas, and sea cucumber fisheries in Yucatán, Mexico; Introduction; Conservation, protected areas, and neoliberalism; At the crossroads of globalization: transitions in the rural Yucatec economy; Subsistence economy; The emergence of a fishing-based economy; Fishing in Celestún
Summary For centuries, new technologies and expanding networks of production and consumption have been changing the face of rural economies in significant ways. Millions of rural dwellers have found survival increasingly difficult and have fled to urban centres. Others have remained: some retrenching, struggling to just subsist, others attempting to innovatively redefine their place within 'new' rural economies. Over the past 30 years, rural economies have largely been ignored by policy makers, but recent growing concerns about food security, environmental degradation, climate change, continu
Notes Environmental conservation in Mexico: a new rural economy?
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Subject Rural development.
Rural population.
Rural poor.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
Regional planning.
Manpower policy, Rural.
Rural Population
rural development.
regional planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Manpower policy, Rural
Regional planning
Rural development
Rural poor
Rural population
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136029202
1136029206
9781136029127
1136029125