Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change: Land, Climate Dynamics, Technological Innovation
  • 2019/239 pages
  • Distributed for HSRC Press

Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change:

Land, Climate Dynamics, Technological Innovation

Peter T. Jacobs
Paperback: $28.50
ISBN: 978-0-7969-2532-9
With more and more global economic wealth and power resting with fewer and fewer people, and given the acute land inequalities in the rural areas of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, how valid are the dominant theories about the nature of rural livelihoods? How can the intricacies of the economic and social transformations that are unfolding in the rural areas of developing countries best be understood?

The authors of Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change address these questions as they explore the interrelated themes of land inequality, climate dynamics, and technological innovation across varied rural landscapes, primarily in South Africa, but also in Rwanda, and Brazil.
Peter T. Jacobs is research director in the Economic Performance and Development Programme at the the Human Sciences Research Council.