Abstract

This chapter examines some of the key links between agricultural livelihoods, rural development policy and agrarian change through the lens of a political ecology of land and water use. In doing so, we aim to develop a deeper understanding of the external and internal processes defining prospects and barriers for agricultural livelihoods. The chapter pays special attention to labour and gender relations in the understanding of agricultural livelihoods. The chapter focuses on 1) the role of control over land and water and labour in defining paths of agrarian change and their relation to different forms of agricultural livelihoods in the context of the sustainability crisis and climate change, and 2) how agricultural livelihoods interact with the wider processes of rural transformations premised on national rural development policies. In conceptual terms, the chapter develops perspectives from an agrarian question framework to offer theoretical and empirical insights into agricultural livelihoods in rural contexts of South America and Africa.

Published in

Title: The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South
ISBN: 978-0-367-85635-9, eISBN: 978-1-003-01404-1
Publisher: Routledge

SLU Authors

• Alarcón Ferrari, Cristián

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

• Bergman Lodin, Johanna

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

• Hajdu, Flora

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

UKÄ Subject classification

Human Geography
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003014041-30

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/128346