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1 Grewal, R.; Pall, S. (Eds.) 2005. Precolonial and colonial Punjab: Society, economy, politics and culture. New Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers. 498p.
History ; Agricultural society ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects ; Culture ; Colonialism ; Legal aspects ; Women ; Peasantry ; Agricultural manpower ; Labor ; Irrigation practices ; Wells / India / Punjab
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 954 G635 GRE Record No: H038560)
2 Scott, J. C.; Bhatt, N. (Eds.) 2001. Agrarian studies: Synthetic work at the cutting edge. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press. ix, 310p. (The Yale ISPS studies)
Agricultural production ; Peasantry ; History ; Anthropology ; Fauna ; Malaria / Europe / Austria / France / South Asia / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 307.72 G000 SCO Record No: H038566)
3 Marriott, M. (Ed.) 1955. Village India: Studies in the little community. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press. xix, 269p.
Villages ; Social structure ; Social systems ; Peasantry ; Social organization / India / Mexico / Mysore / Tanjore / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 307.72 G635 MAR Record No: H038567)
4 Darling, M. L.; Maclagan, E. 1932. The Punjab peasant: in prosperity and debt. 3rd ed. London, UK: Oxford University Press (OUP) xvii, 291p.
Peasantry ; Agricultural society ; Debt ; Credit ; Poverty ; Tenancy ; Living standards ; Canals ; Land ownership ; Wells ; Villages ; Women ; Cooperatives / India / Punjab / Jhelum / Lyallpur
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 307.72 G635 DAR Record No: H038570)
5 Sridhar, V. 2006. Why do farmers commit suicide?: The case of Andhra Pradesh. Economic and Political Weekly, 41(16):1559-1565.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7539 Record No: H038730)
6 Thomas, K. J. A. 2002. Development projects and involuntary population displacement: The World Bank’s attempt to correct past failures. Population Research and Policy Review, 21:339-349.
Development projects ; Peasantry ; Rural population ; Displacement ; Development banks ; Dams / West Africa / Togo / Nangbeto Dam
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7602 Record No: H039237)
7 Dunham, D. 1995. Contract farming and export horticulture: Can agribusiness revitalize the peasant sector in Sri Lanka? Colombo, Sri Lanka: Institute of Policy Studies. 41p. (IPS Research studies: Agricultural policy series no.3)
Contract farming ; Peasantry ; Horticulture ; Vegetables ; Gherkins ; Fertilizers ; Labor / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 331.542 G744 DUN Record No: H039280)
8 Moore, M. 1989. The ideological history of the Sri Lankan peasantry. Modern Asian Studies, 23(1):179-207.
Rural economy ; Rural sociology ; History ; Colonialism ; Agricultural society ; Peasantry ; Peasant workers ; Farmers ; Farming ; Public policy / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 7914 Record No: H040210)
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9 Spencer, J. 1990. A Sinhala village in a time of trouble: politics and change in rural Sri Lanka. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press (OUP) 285p. (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series)
Villages ; Social aspects ; Political aspects ; History ; Culture ; Religion ; Peasantry / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 306.09 G744 SPE Record No: H040436)
10 Mapedza, Everisto. 2007. Forestry policy in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe: Continuity and change. Journal of Historical Geography, 33:833-851.
Forestry ; Governance ; Policy ; Legislation ; History ; Colonialism ; Peasantry / Zimbabwe / Mafungautsi Forest Reserve
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 634.9 G176 MAP Record No: H040623)
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Using the case of Mafungautsi Forest Reserve, this paper discusses continuities and changes in policy and practice at the communal and reserved forest interface in Zimbabwe. Colonial forestry policy in Zimbabwe has often been labelled as oppressive, as communal area citizens were not allowed to participate effectively in its formulation and implementation. Independence in 1980, it was thought, would usher in an era of greater participation within the forestry sector. However, the hope that local communities would have greater input in the forestry policies and management has largely remained unfulfilled. The state institutions responsible for managing forests have largely remained unsympathetic to the involvement of local communities in the management of forestry resources despite the pre-independence rhetoric. Alongside the co-management attempt to make local peasants citizens through their inclusion in decision-making has been the continuity of the colonial policy that treated local peasants who used resources as criminals destroying trees and forests. This paper examines how the fundamental policy perspective of forestry in Zimbabwe still perceives local peasant farmers to be unsustainable exploiters of forests. The local resource users have not remained passive recipients of the repressive forestry policies and practices based on science but have actively contested them since the 1950s.
11 Kurian, M.; Dietz, T. 2007. Hydro-logic: poverty, heterogeneity and cooperation on the commons. New Delhi: Macmillan. 221p.
Watershed management ; Participatory management ; Collective action ; Peasantry ; Erosion ; Dams ; Forest management ; Natural resources management ; Irrigation management ; Poverty ; Employment ; Landlessness ; Income ; Forest resources / India / Haryana / Shiwalik Region / Sukhomajiri Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G635 KUR Record No: H040897)
12 Redclift, M.; Giordano, M.; Matzke, M.; Watts, M. 2001. Classics in human geography revisited. "Watts, M. 1983: Silent violence: food, famine and peasantry in northern Nigeria. Berkeley: University of California Press." Commentary 1; Commentary 2; Author's response: lost in space. Progress in Human Geography, 25(4):621-628.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043077)
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13 Sugden, Fraser; Nigussie, Likimyelesh; Debevec, Liza; Nijbroek, R. 2022. Migration, environmental change and agrarian transition in upland regions: learning from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal. Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(5):1101-1131. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1894552]
Migration ; Agrarian structure ; Labour mobility ; Remittances ; Income ; Remuneration ; Capitalism ; Peasantry ; Agriculture ; Investment ; Farmers ; Landlessness ; Tenants ; Livelihoods ; Women ; Decision making ; Highlands ; Communities / Ethiopia / Kenya / Nepal / Tigray / Chirkhuwa Valley / Gatanga / Muragua / Embahasti / Raya Azebo / Kimalung / Gufagaon / Sanrang / Aaptari / Bhadare
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050498)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03066150.2021.1894552
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This paper analyses the relationship between cyclical labour migration and agrarian transition in the uplands of Nepal, Ethiopia and Kenya. It shows that while migration decision-making is linked to expanding capitalist markets, it is mediated by local cultural, political and ecological changes. In turn, cyclical migration goes on to shape the trajectory of change within agriculture. The dual dependence on both migrant income and agriculture within these upland communities often translates into an intensifying work burden on the land, and rising profits for capitalism. However, on some occasions this income can support increased productivity and accumulation within agriculture – although this depends on both the agro-ecological context and the local agrarian structure.
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