Rural Livelihoods And Poverty Reduction Policies

by Ellis; Frank

• ISBN13: 9780415341196
• ISBN10: 0415341191
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Based on case-study research in four low income sub-Saharan African countries (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi) this book brings together the micro-level realities of gaining a living in rural areas with the macro-level that seek to secure rapid poverty reduction in line with the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by the year 2015. The starting point is the livelihoods approach to poverty reduction that providesa powerful framework within which micro-level experiences of poverty and vulnerability can be connected to the policy contexts that either block or facilitate people's own efforts to escape from poverty. Initial chapters provide evidence concerning the multiple and diverse character of rural livelihoods. The book then goues on to examine the institutional context of livelihoods, including decentralisation, taxation, markets, land tenure and agricultural research. The natural resource dimensions of agriculture, livestock, fisheries, small-scale irrigation andcommunity-based natural resource management policies are then analysed. The concluding chapters consider micro-macro linkages, including linking micro-level poverty traps to Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers; incorporating rural poverty measurement in such strategies; and tracing macro-micro links. This book exposes the gap that occurs between the rhetoric of poverty reduction strategies in capital cities and the practice of public sector delivery in rural areas. It will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of rural development, rural livelihoods, poverty reduction strategies and Sub-Saharan Africa development as well as advisors and practitioners in international organizations.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
List of contributors	xiv
Foreword	xx
Preface	xxii
PART I Introduction	1	(28)
1 Conceptual framework and overview of themes	3	(13)
FRANK ELLIS AND H. ADE FREEMAN
2 Dynamic poverty traps and rural livelihoods	16	(13)
CHRISTOPHER BARRETT AND BRENT M. SWALLOW
PART II Evidence from rural livelihoods research	29	(88)
3 Comparative evidence from four African countries	31	(17)
FRANK ELLIS AND H. ADE FREEMAN
4 Rural livelihoods and agrarian change in sub-Saharan Africa: processes and policies	48	(14)
DEBORAH FAHY BRYC:ESON
5 Livelihood diversification in rural Andhra Pradesh, India	62	(20)
EDWARD ANDERSON AND PRIYA DESHINGKAR
6 Household composition and rural livelihoods in Uganda	82	(17)
CATHERINE S. DOLAN
7 Chronic poverty in rural Uganda: harsh realities and constrained choices	99	(18)
KATE BIRD AND ISAAC SHINYEKWA
PART III Institutions and policy contexts of rural livelihoods	117	(96)
8 Decentralization and rural livelihoods in Malawi	119	(14)
SHOLTO CROSS AND MILTON KUTENGULE
9 Rural taxation and poverty reduction in Uganda	133	(16)
GODFREY BAHIIGWA
10 Marketing reform? The rise and fall of agricultural liberalisation in Tanzania	149	(17)
BRIAN COOKSEY
11 Competition and coordination in liberalized African cotton market systems	166	(17)
COLIN POULTON, PETER GIBBON, BENJAMINE HANYANI-MLAMBO, JONATHAN KYDD, WILBALD MARO, MARIANNE NYLANDSTED LARSEN, AFONSO OSORIO, DAVID TSCHIRLEY AND BALLARD ZULU
12 Comparative land tenure issues arising in four countries	183	(15)
SHOLTO CROSS
13 Implications of livelihood strategies for agricultural research: a Kenya case study	198	(15)
H. ADE FREEMAN AND FRANK ELLIS
PART IV Natural resource management and rural poverty reduction	213	(96)
14 Crop-based farming systems and diverse livelihoods in Uganda	215	(20)
JOHN MCDONAGH
15 More than income: pro-poor livestock development policy in Uganda	235	(21)
STEVE ASHLEY AND WILLIAM NANYEENYA
16 The fisheries sector, livelihoods and poverty reduction in eastern and southern Africa	256	(18)
EDWARD H. ALLISON
17 Irrigation, livelihoods and river basins	274	(20)
BRUCE LANKFORD
18 Community-based natural resource management in Malawi and Botswana	294	(15)
PIERS BLAIKIE
PART V Macro-micro linkages in rural poverty reduction policies	309	(56)
19 Poverty reduction strategies for addressing multi-level poverty traps: reflections from Kenya	311	(21)
BRENT SWALLOW
20 Predicting rural household poverty: methodological issues and the PRSP process in Kenya	332	(15)
GERMANO MWABU, MWANGI S. KIMENYI, PAUL K. KIMALU, NANCY NAFULA AND DAMIANO K. MANDA
21 Economic reform and rural livelihood diversification: case studies from Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda	347	(18)
KUNAL SEN
PART VI Towards improved rural poverty reduction strategies	365	(11)
22 Synthesis and policy implications	367	(9)
H. ADE FREEMAN AND FRANK ELLIS
References	376	(29)
Index	405