Evolving Themes in Rural Development 1950s- 2000s

By F. Ellis, S. Biggs. 2001

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Livelihood diversification strategies, incomes and soil management strategies: a case study from Kerio Valley, Kenya (2008, background): “poverty reduction and sustainable development that recognised how and why African farmers pursue diversified livelihoods (Ellis and Biggs, 2001).”
Is rainfed agriculture really a pathway from poverty (2014, background): “Since the 1960s, the consensus has been that equitable growth required a development strategy based on smallholder agriculture (Ellis and Biggs, 2001).”
Rural development through the construction of new, nested, markets: comparative perspectives from China, Brazil and the European Union (2012, background): “Since then the concept of rural development has been redefined several times (Ellis and Biggs 2001 ), whilst the rural development practices have evolved in different and sometimes clearly contrasting ways.”
Assets, Activities and Rural Income Generation: Evidence from a Multicountry Analysis (2009, background): “Historically, farming has been considered the principal economic activity of rural households, particularly poor rural households, and the dominant view of development has been the small-farm first paradigm which emphasizes promoting agriculture among smallholders (Ellis & Biggs, 2001).”
Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders (2016, background): “Earlier Green Revolutions occurred when rural development politics was shaped by narratives of state-led modernization, import substitution, and growth through redistribution, a political context that justified transformative levels of state financing and extension activities (Ellis & Biggs, 2001).”
De-agrarianization, re-agrarianization and local economic development: Re-orientating livelihoods in African artisanal mining communities (2010, background): “Consequently, and not surprisingly, the majority of Africa’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) 1 have what Ellis and Briggs (2001, p. 441) refer to as a ‘smallfarm focus’: they place smallholder farmers 2 at the heart of development efforts.”
Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance: Scale dimensions of practice in Mozambique (2008, background): “Likewise, it is not clear how building human capacity will support long-term resilience to climate change without also addressing other constraining factors, such as institutional and trade structures, land rights, elite capture and poverty (Hanlon, 1996; Pontera, 1997; Unruh, 1998; Ellis and Biggs,”
Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers (2009, background): “In the 1960s and 1970s the dominant policy narrative centred on the need for state intervention to plan and implement the essential investments needed for rural development (Ashley and Maxwell 2001; Ellis and Biggs 2001).”
Who Wants to Farm? Youth Aspirations, Opportunities and Rising Food Prices (2014, background): “Much rests on the rural poor being poor small farmers’ (Ellis and Biggs 2001, 441).”