Equitable rural socioeconomic change: land, climate dynamics, technological innovation
Contextualising socioeconomic change / Peter T Jacobs -- Part 1. Labour, land and food. Improving the quality of work for chronically poor people / Lucy Scott -- Technical change and labour absorption in large-scale commercial agriculture in South Africa / Ajuruchukwu Obi -- Support to smallholder farmers in South Africa: challenges of scale and strategy / Michael Aliber and Ruth Hall -- Translating farmland redistribution project practices into policy outcomes / Tim G. B. Hart -- Farm and non-farm livelihoods in the rural West Coast District, South Africa / Peter T. Jacobs and Ephias Makaudze -- Part 2. Climate and ecological dynamics. Droughts, floods, carbon footprints and agriculture: The case of South Africa in context / Peter T. Jacobs and Rehema Msulwa -- The trade in Pelargonium sidoides: rural livelihood relief or bounty for bio-buccaneers? / Jaci van Niekerk and Rachel Wynberg -- Natural resource pricing and climate change vulnerability: implications for smallholder development in Africa / Ajuruchukwu Obi and Lily Kisaka -- Participation of women in smallholder irrigated agriculture in South Africa: constraints and opportunities / Maxwell Mudhara, Stanley Sharaunga and Sithembile Sinyolo -- To what extent does conservation benefit local communities? / Melville Saayman, Riaan Rossouw and Andrea Saayman -- The challenges of climate change and biofuel production in South Africa: the perspectives of smallholder producers / Ephias Makaudze -- Part 3. Science, technology and innovation. Rural innovation adoption pitfalls: The case of interrupted diffusion of sericulture among Rwandan farmers / Alexis Habiyaremye -- Social technology and sewage treatment in rural areas of Brazil / Milena Serafim and Rafael Dias -- Innovation and the dynamics of rural economic development / Lindile L. Ndabeni.