Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the 21st Century: Theories, Debates, Realities and Policies

Peasants are a majority of the world’s poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the 21st Century provides a much-needed critical perspective linking three central questions: Why has peasantry, unlike othe...

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Published in:CROP International Studies in Poverty Research 2016
Main Authors: Boltvinik, Julio, Mann, Susan Archer, Desai, Meghnad, Bartra, Armando, Welty, Gordon, Dickinson, James, Blumenfeld, Emily, Arizmendi, Luis, Bernstein, Henry, Damián, Araceli, Pacheco, Edith, Leff, Enrique, Montaña, Elma, Vergopoulos, Kostas, Araghi, Farshad A, Barkin, David, Lemus, Blanca
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agrarian welfare
Agricultural capitalism
Colonialism
Developmentalism
Globalisation
Labour
Marx
Peasantry
Poverty
Privatisation
Rural poverty
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Summary:Peasants are a majority of the world’s poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the 21st Century provides a much-needed critical perspective linking three central questions: Why has peasantry, unlike other areas of non-capitalist production, persisted? Why are the vast majority of peasants poor? And how are these two questions related? Interweaving contributions from various disciplines, the book provides a range of responses, offering new theoretical, historical and policy perspectives on this peasant ‘world drama’. Scholars from both South and North argue that we must build upon the peasant economy’s advantages over agricultural capitalism in meeting the challenges of feeding the growing world population while sustaining the environment.