Abstract

Agriculture has been seen as the engine of growth for Afghanistan, but it has failed to deliver. Evidence from a long-term livelihood study points to a rural economy that is driven more by social relations than by market relations. These are underpinned by major land inequality and a distributional economy concerned with survival, given the absence of rural employment.

Keywords

agrarian transformation; livelihood trajectories; landlessness; distributional economy

Published in

Asian Survey
2018, Volume: 58, number: 6, pages: 1111-1135
Publisher: UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS

SLU Authors

• Pain, Adam

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all


UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Science
Economics


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/AS.2018.58.6.1111

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/98373