Disappearing Peasantries?

Deborah Bryceson, Christobal Kay, Jos Mooij

This book points out how peasant labour redundancy can undermine rural welfare and political stability, and why academics and policy-makers of the twenty-first century cannot ignore the world's disappearing peasantries without endangering sustainable development and international security. The edito...

Encouraging Diversity

Conny Almekinders, Walter de Boef

This book presents around 80 briefly described cases which illuminate accumulated experience in plant genetic resources in both the South and the North. These experiences illustrate the apparent conflict between crop conservation and development, and contribute to the understanding of opportunities...

Ending Violence Against Women

Francine Pickup, Suzanne Williams, Caroline Sweetman

Violence, and women's fear of it, limits women's choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women's physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women's ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships...

Ending Violence Against Women

Francine Pickup, Suzanne Williams, Caroline Sweetman

Violence and women’s fear of it limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and...

Environments and Livelihoods

Koos Neefjes

Is poverty to blame for the global environmental crisis - or conversely, is environmental degradation a major cause of poverty? This question is at the heart of this book, which conceives of environment; in the broadest sense: one that includes people and social relationships. It reflects on the rel...

Popular Education and Social Change in Latin America

Liam Kane

Social movements, collective action, imaginative campaigning, grassroots politics, empowerment of the excluded, indigenous knowledge, appropriate development, participation, and literacy all have popular education in common. Social and political history in Latin America is hard to understand without...

Reyita

Daisy Rubiera Castillo, Liz Dore

The life story of a black woman born in 1902 in Cuba, her life spanning the best part of the 20th century. Through her detailed memory of her ancestors, of her still enslaved grandmother, as much as of her own life and times, she gives a portrait of being black and female in Cuba. The book seeks to...

Deeper than Debt

George Ann Potter

An introduction to the history and current implications of the debt crisis, which positions debt in the wider context of globalisation and development. Deeper than Debt brings together a wide range of viewpoints to discuss the effects of economic globalisation on the lives of the poor majority in de...

Women Of Maize

Guiomar Rovira

Anna Keane

Many aspects of life have changed little since colonial times in the cloudy, misted highlands of the southernmost state of Mexico. In Chiapas women still marry at 13, and are often sold for a few bottles of liquor or a cow. On New Year's Day 1994 Chiapas was brought to the attention of the world by...

Jamaica In Focus 2nd Edition

Peter Mason

A look at the various, sometimes conflicting, aspects of Jamaica: at once a paradise tourist island, the gangster-ridden home of the yardies, a proudly independent democracy, an island struggling with debt and its dependence on a few primary products, and a fantastically vibrant home of musical and...