Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South

By J. Rigg. 2006

845 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Lives and livelihoods in the Rural South are becoming increasingly divorced from farming and, therefore, from the land. Patterns and associations of wealth and poverty have become more diffuse and diverse as non-farm opportunities have expanded and heightened levels of mobility have led to the delocalization of livelihoods. This, in turn, has had ramifications for the production and reproduction of poverty in the countryside, which is becoming progressively de-linked from agricultural resources. This requires a reconsideration of some old questions regarding how best to achieve pro-poor development in the Rural South.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Urban Studies

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Patrick Meyfroidt
2. I. Scoones
3. Tobias Kuemmerle
4. T. Li
5. D. Hall
6. Daniel Müller
7. G. Wilson
8. Eric F. Lambin

In Soil Science

1. D. Hall
2. Patrick Meyfroidt
3. T. Li
4. I. Scoones
5. S. Eriksen
6. J. McCarthy
7. R. Sunam
8. B. Cousins

In Urban Studies

1. T. Li
2. D. Hall
3. S. Eriksen
4. G. Wilson
5. R. Lapeyre
6. S. Schwarze
7. L. Feintrenie
8. P. Levang

Citations in the corpus

• Exit from agriculture: a step forward or a step backward for the rural poor? (2009, background): “As Hall points out, a compelling literature on ‘deagrarianisation’ (Rigg 2006, Bryceson et al. 2000) has shown that subsistence agriculture pursued in isolated villages is a form of life many rural people are eager to escape.”
• Are Rural Youth in Ethiopia Abandoning Agriculture (2014, background): “The African Youth Charter defines youth as persons in the age group 15–35 (UN, 2014).”
• Middle-range theories of land system change (2018, background): “…social stratification and lifestyle groups (e.g. Ecology of Prestige – Grove et al., 2006); (ii) neighborhood-scale formal and informal institutions (Robbins and Sharp, 2003; Heynen et al., 2006) and housing filtering, i.e., the change in status and income of the population of a neighborhood over…”
• Centering labor in the land grab debate (2011, neutral): “14See Rigg (2006), Bryceson, Kay, and Mooij (2000), Hall, Hirsch, and Li (2011), Hall (2009).”
• Multifunctional ‘quality’ and rural community resilience (2010, background): “In addition, agriculture no longer necessarily forms the essential backbone for rural development (Rigg 2006), and instead rural spaces in both the global North and South are characterised by complex, multi-dimensional and hybrid development pathways in which questions and answers about the ‘right’…”
• Determinant factors of livelihood diversification: Evidence from Ethiopia (2017, background): “Non-farm activities have the potential to play a crucial role in reducing vulnerability to poverty by providing households with a form of insurance against the risks of farming and reducing reliance on natural resources (Cinner et al., 2010; Lohmann & Liefner, 2009; Martin & Lorenzen, 2016; Rigg, 20”
• Land grabs, land control, and Southeast Asian crop booms (2011, background): “Even in an era of deagrarianization in Southeast Asia (Rigg 2006), very large numbers of people continue to undertake risky and expensive”
• Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa (2009, background): “Rigg ( 2006 , 196) notes the rapid diversification of rural livelihoods in the Asian contexts and suggests that ‘sustainable livelihoods … are increasingly likely to be divorced, spatially and occupationally from the land’.”
• Reconsidering the links between poverty, international labour migration, and agrarian change: critical insights from Nepal (2016, background): “In contrast, ‘new poverty’ is produced by processes of development that create impoverishment (Rigg 2006, 194) or when ‘adverse incorporation’ occurs as the poor are incorporated on negative terms (Du Toit 2004; McCarthy 2010).”
• Droughts and famines: The underlying factors and the causal links among agro-pastoral households in semi-arid Makueni district, Kenya (2008, background): “Thus the scenario whereby rural livelihoods are increasingly being de-linked from farming (see Rigg, 2006) does not hold for the study area.”