Peasants and Globalization by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristba... - 9780415588751

Peasants and GlobalizationPolitical economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question\nAuthor(s): A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristbal Kay\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415588751, 978-0415588751\nSynopsis\nIn 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the worlds population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an unparalleled group of internationally-eminent scholars in the field of rural development and social change in order to explore historical and contemporary processes of agrarian change and transformation and their consequent impact upon the livelihoods, poverty and well-being of those who live in the countryside. The book provides a critical analysis of the extent to which rural development trajectories have in the past and are now promoting a change in rural production processes, the accumulation of rural resources.