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Research area and mission |
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The driving motivation of this Working Programme is the need to better understand the continuing problems of mass rural poverty, in the context of longer-term transformations of rural economy and society. Despite rapid urbanisation in recent decades, rural populations continue to grow absolutely in all major world regions except the OECD countries. Consequently the study of rural transformation under conditions of increasing pressure upon resources is still a central theme of pivotal importance in rural development studies. Development of the agricultural sector as the main pillar of the rural economy, is an acknowledged prerequisite for successful development of the national economy. However, even in cases of successful agricultural growth, the agricultural sector has often failed to provide sufficient employment or increased incomes for the majority of rural men and women, requiring new attention to the potentials and constraints of growth and diversification in the rural economy. |
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Research themes
The research programme explores a number of key issues deriving from the central CERES research questions on the principles and processes underlying rural resource management at various levels of analysis. These are elaborated under the following thematic headings:
1. Development Strategies, Agrarian Debates and Agrarian Reforms
2. Population, Environment, Food Systems and Rural Change.
3. Rural-Urban Interaction and Rural Transformation.
4. Market Formation and its Impact on Rural Communities and Households.
5. Rural African Land and Labour Issues.
6. Global-Local Transformations: Agriculture, Livelihoods, Food and Consumption.
7. The Experience of Crisis: Rural Responses to Economic and Political Crisis. |
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Organization