Rural category: 418 books
Vozes do Universo Rural
Reescrevendo o Estado em África
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 9, 2017
A obra que agora se publica nasceu do projecto “Dinâmicas Sociais na Estruturação dos Espaços políticos em Contextos Rurais Africanos”, no qual se analisaram, em termos comparativos, as dinâmicas sociais que ocorrem em universos rurais africanos e a participação de diferentes actores sociais...
Savoirs et développement rural
Le dialogue au coeur de l'innovation
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2011
La succession des crises, alimentaire, économique et environnementale, a amené les instances mondiales de la recherche agricole et du développement (RAD) à se mobiliser. Face à l'échec avéré de l'aide publique au développement à réduire les inégalités et la faim, notamment en Afrique,...
by Susana Moreira Marques
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality...
Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese...
by Clare Gogerty
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
The official TV-tie in to the popular Channel 4 programme 'Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages'
Explore the most interesting and beautiful examples of British village life in this lavishly illustrated book, published as a companion volume to the highly successful Channel 4 television series, 'Penelope...
Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share
Country and City in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Once the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to...
Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition
India in the global debate
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This book evaluates the relevance of classical debates on agrarian transition and extends the horizon of contemporary debates in the Indian context, linking national trends with regional experiences. It identifies new dynamics in agrarian political economy and presents a comprehensive account of diverse...
by Monica Hesse
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
**One of NPR's Best Books of 2017
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
“A brisk, captivating and expertly crafted reconstruction of a community living through a time of fear. . . . Masterful.”— Washington Post**
The arsons started on a cold November midnight...
Inside-Outside
Two Views of Social Change in Rural India
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Poverty in rural India: Is this a permanent condition? Are villagers immobilized by a rigid caste system, limited resources and economic exploitation? This book is about villagers who have done remarkable things with their lives—people who have broken the constraints of poverty and inequality to...
Children of the Land
Adversity and Success in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age and is also symptomatic of an unparalleled transformation...
by World Bank; Food and Agriculture Organization; International Fund for Agricultural Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
The Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues and a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gender dimensions into agricultural projects and programs.It is serves as a tool for: guidance;...
Next-Year Country
A Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1951
In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town of Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946.
Dr Burnet examines geographical and economic conditions in Hanna, and shows how...
The New Agrarian Mind
The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period. With the triumph of the industrial North over the rural South, the expansion of urbanism, and the closing of the frontier, the agrarian sector became an economic and cultural minority....
Storm Lake
A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
"A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable." --The New York Times Book Review
**“[The Storm Lake Times has an] unwavering commitment to elevating the community… Not the enemy of the people but a voice for the people.” --Beto O’Rourke,...