Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihood practices and policies.

By D. Bryceson. 2000

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Citations in the corpus

• Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research (2008, background): “Secondly, in many places agriculture is not the primary income generator for rural households, and often people buffer themselves against food and income failures by diversifying out of agricultural production on their own farms (Ellis, 2000; Bryceson, 2000).”
• The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa (2009, methodology): “Despite the abovementioned changes, African rural-dwellers value the pursuit of farming activities (Bryceson, 2000) thus subsistence production of food is still a major component of livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa.”
• What drives food insecurity in southern Africa? a meta-analysis of household economy studies (2005, background): “In the food security literature, it is noted that in some cases a loss of social capital is occurring that is specifically associated with ‘depeasantization’, described as the a breakdown of family units and social structures that may occur when communities diversify out of traditional farming livel”
• Household livelihoods in semi-arid regions: options and constraints (2002, unknown): “Available evidence suggests continuing livelihood diversification, increased monetisation and constantly shifting livelihoods (Bryceson 1996, 2000, 2002; Scoones et al. 1996; Ellis 1998, 1999, 2000; Mortimore 1998; Ashley and Maxwell 2001; Orr and Mwale 2001).”
• Agricultural development and pro‐poor economic growth in sub‐Saharan Africa: potential and policy (2004, background): “Bryceson (2000) argued that much of the diversification into non-farm activities in Africa in the late 1980s and 1990s can be characterized as “push” as smallholders have been caught between the scissors of declining profitability of and support for commercial smallholder agriculture on the one…”
• Implications of market and coordination failures for rural development in least developed countries (2004, background): “…the last 30 years is supported by the high incidence and severity of rural poverty in Sub Saharan Africa as compared with other regions, widespread reports of agricultural stagnation (for example Bryceson 2000), and data on fertiliser use and yields (see for example Dorward et al. 2001, p18-19).”
• Integrating Contested Aspirations, Processes and Policy: Development as Hanging In, Stepping Up and Stepping Out (2009, background): “…investments in and reliance on one particular activity or the start of a new activity may also be associated with ‘push factors’– in which case apparent ‘stepping-up’ or ‘stepping-out’ responses might more accurately be described in terms of ‘hanging in’ (see, for example, Bryceson, 2000).”
• Rural livelihoods and poverty reduction policies. (2005, unknown): “There is also evidence that the share of non-farm income is increasing in the income portfolio of rural households (Bryceson 2000).”