The Scramble in Africa: Reorienting Rural Livelihoods

By D. Bryceson. 2002

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An African account of ecosystem service provision : use, threats and policy options for sustainable livelihoods (2012, background): “However, the imposition of Structural Adjustment Programs from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s amounted to a drastic undermining of the most industrialized production through the removal of subsidies on improved inputs such as fertilizers, seeds and pesticides (Bryceson, 2002).”
Community-based tourism as a sustainable solution to maximise impacts locally? The Tsiseb Conservancy case, Namibia (2010, background): “In the current context of globalisation and decreasing prices in agriculture, these tourism revenues further provide for necessary income diversification and risk management through labour force participation outside rural agriculture (Bryceson, 2002; Rigg, 2006).”
The continuing debate about urban bias (2010, background): “Terry Byres (1979), too, importantly, argued that Lipton had neglected the power of rural voice in the Indian countryside. Keith Griffi n (1977) and Stuart Corbridge (1982), meanwhile, took aim at Lipton’s account of urban and rural classes.”
Livelihood adaptations to climate variability: insights from farming households in Ghana (2014, background): “This challenges the de-agrarianisation thesis that has concerned many assessing the future of African farming systems (e.g. Bryceson 2002; Twyman et al. 2004) and the assumption by development agencies that the non-farm economy holds the prospect and livelihood security for Africa farmers…”
Bioenergy and sustainable development (2007, background): “With the continuing decline in prices of their products (and often increases in input prices), even increased output may still lead to reduced surpluses, leading to what has been termed as distress-inducing growth (182) and a need for nonagricultural income for making ends meet (183).”
Livelihood diversification strategies, incomes and soil management strategies: a case study from Kerio Valley, Kenya (2008, background): “20, 380–397 (2008) DOI: 10.1002/jid et al., 2001; Bryceson, 2002; Tittonell et al., 2005).”
Rural livelihoods and poverty reduction policies. (2005, neutral): “* This chapter is an abridged and edited version of a paper published in World Development (Bryceson 2002).”
The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa (2009, methodology): “Recent research indicates that subsistence food production is increasing in importance in some countries, mainly as a fallback against a backdrop of inflation and proliferating cash needs (Bryceson, 2002).”
Institutional change, climate risk, and rural vulnerability: Cases from Central Mexico (2005, background): “Bryceson argues that in the face of declining producer subsidies, rising production costs and obstacles to participation in commercial agricultural markets, rural households’ engagement in nonfarm activities increasingly must be viewed not as a coping strategy but rather as a committed adaptation to”
The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture (2010, background): “De-agrarianization, especially in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), but also in sub-Saharan Africa, is a noted phenomenon (Bryceson, 2002).”
Socio-economic and environmental implications of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) on agriculture and livelihoods (2020, background): “Contrasting with the conventional wisdom that most rural households, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, subsist on farming activities, Reardon et al (1994) point out that the nonfarm sector provides an important share of household income (see also Bryceson, 2002; Ellis, 2006).”
Smallholder adaptation to climate change: dynamics and limits in Northern Ghana (2012, background): “…production (Carter 1997), the diversification of agricultural production (subsistence and market production) (Elwert 1983; Ellis 1998), alternative sources of livelihood (Bryceson 2002) and different coping strategies in the case of disaster (Scott 1976; Olivier de Sardan 1988; Adams et al. 1998).”
New investment, old challenges. Land deals and the water constraint in African agriculture (2012, background): “While this may be interpreted as a ‘de-agrarianisation’ of the rural economy (Bryceson 1999 , 2002 ), it is also possible to consider it as integral to a re-ordering of the relationships of labour and capital within African farming in two important ways.”
De-agrarianization, re-agrarianization and local economic development: Re-orientating livelihoods in African artisanal mining communities (2010, background): “Today, no less than 45% of the region’s average rural household income is derived from non-farm activities (Reardon 1997; Barrett et al. 2001; Bryceson 2002).”
Dealing with drought : The challenge of using water system technologies to break dryland poverty traps (2008, result): “Interestingly, considering that diversification towards non-agro-ecosystem-based income sources often is seen as the norm for smallholders nowadays (Barrett et al., 2001; Bryceson, 2002; Rigg, 2006), the results demonstrate the substantial importance of the local environment’s capacity to generate g”