In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the
world's 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, and shifts in rural politics, and the implications of
such trajectories for peasant livelihoods and rural workers in an
era of globalization. Peasants and Globalization thus explores
continuity and change in the debate on the 'agrarian question',
from its early formulation in the late 19th century to the
continuing relevance it has in our times, including chapters from
Terence Byres, Amiya Bagchi, Ellen Wood, Farshad Araghi, Henry
Bernstein, Saturnino M Borras, Ray Kiely, Michael Watts and Philip
McMichael. Collectively, the contributors argue that neoliberal
social and economic policies have, in deepening the market
imperative governing the contemporary world food system, not only
failed to tackle to underlying causes of rural poverty but have
indeed deepened the agrarian crisis currently confronting the
livelihoods of peasant farmers and rural workers. This crisis does
not go unchallenged, as rural social movements have emerged, for
the first time, on a transnational scale. Confronting development
policies that are unable to reduce, let alone eliminate, rural
poverty, transnational rural social movements are attempting to
construct a more just future for the world's farmers and rural
workers.
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