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

Rigg, J.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.07.015

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

Rigg, J.

Authors

J. Rigg

Abstract

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.

Citation

Rigg, J. (2006). Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the rural South. World Development, 34(1), 180-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.07.015

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	2006-01
Deposit Date	Nov 8, 2006
Publicly Available Date	Apr 23, 2009
Journal	World Development
Print ISSN	0305-750X
Publisher	Elsevier
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	34
Issue	1
Pages	180-202
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.07.015
Keywords	Rural South, Asia, agrarian change, Poverty, Rural livelihoods.