Rural Development
Adam Pain, Kjell Hansen
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Rural Development
Adam Pain, Kjell Hansen
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Rural Development is a textbook that critically examines economic, social and cultural aspects of rural development efforts both in the global north and in the global south. By consistently using examples from the north and the south the book highlights similarities of processes as well as differences in contexts.
The authors' knowledge of Afghanistan and Sweden respectively creates a core for the discussions which are complemented with a wide range of other empirical examples. Rural Development is divided into nine chapters, each with a thematic focus, ranging from concepts and theories through rural livelihoods and natural resources to discussions on policy and processes of change. The book sees rural development as a multi-level, multi-actor and multi-faceted subject area that needs multidisciplinary perspectives both to support it and to analyse it. Throughout the book examples of rural development interventions are discussed using analytical concepts such as power, discourse, consequences and context to grasp rural development as practices that are more than what is presented in policy documents.
The book is written in a way that makes it accessible for undergraduates while at the same time caters for the kind of deeper reading used by master students and Ph.D.'s. Every chapter is linked to discussion questions as well as suggested further readings and useful websites.
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Chapter 1
What is rural development?
- The complex nature of the rural
- Rural development as intentional practice and immanent processes
- Key ideas and approaches in rural development
- Comparative analysis and the use of case studies
Introduction
Box 1.1: The failure of grand schemes: the case of the Millennium Villages
What is rural?
Box 1.2: Country contrasts in the definition of what is rural: five examples
- Kenya: The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics define rural as a locality with a human population of less than 2,000
- Madagascar: Rural areas are districts in which the proportion of agriculturally economically active population (as defined by the Agricultural Census) exceeds 50 percent
- Mexico: A rural locality is defined by the national statistical system as a place with fewer than 2,500 dwellers
- Morocco: Rural areas are defined by default as any areas that are not included in the scope of an urban area
- Nicaragua: The official definition of rural areas is districts with fewer than 1,000 dwellers
Box 1.3: What is rural in Sweden?
Region and country with the highest and lowest share of non-agriculture in GDP (%) | Share of non-agriculture in GDP (%) 2010–2014* | Rural poverty headcount at country poverty line 2010–2014* | Employment in agriculture** |
---|---|---|---|
Asia & the Pacific | |||
China | 90.6 | 7.9 | 2.5 |
Lao PDR | 71.1 | 28.6 | 71.3 |
Latin America & the Caribbean | |||
Brazil | 94.7 | 31.1 | 14.5 |
Paraguay | 79.0 | 40.3 | 22.8 |
East and Southern Africa | |||
Botswana | 97.3 | 24.3 (2005–09) | 26.4 |
Ethiopia | 55.2 | 30.4 | 72.7 |
West & Central Africa | |||
Congo | 95.9 | 74.8 | *** |
Central African Republic | 44.2 | 69.4 (2005–09) | *** |
Near East & Central Asia | |||
Jordan | 96.6 | 16.8 | 1.8 |
Tajikistan | 74.3 | 25.7 | *** |
** (Source: UNDP, 2016, Human Development Report, Table 11, 237)
*** No data
Box 1.4: Attributes and functions of the rural
- The rural as a place of imagination: the specific images of the rural are all based on the contrasts between rural and urban: the rural is everything that the urban is not. There is no consistency in what kinds of stories these narratives tell: they can focus on the rural as backwards; as idyllic and pristine; as a field for future wealth and well-being; as a place for recreation, adventu...