TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gill,Gerard J.
TI  - Seasonality and agriculture in the developing world: a problem of the poor and powerless 
SN  - 9780511565618 (ebook)
AV  - HD1417 .G55 1991
U1  - 338.1/09172/4 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Crops and climate
KW  - Rural poor
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - Recent years have seen a strong interest in the problem of seasonal variation in employment, income, nutrition and sickness in rural areas of the Third World. In general the poorer and more powerless people are, the more they tend to suffer during the season of hunger and sickness. This book takes an overall view of the seasonality problem. The first three chapters consider the importance of seasonality, explore its climatic and social roots and examine the evidence as to its impact on the disadvantaged. Ways in which environmental diversity can modify the effects of seasonality are then discussed, also how societies have traditionally used such diversity for countering the challenge of seasonality. Special problems of developing countries in meeting this challenge are considered. The author is at present a programme leader for Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is, therefore, very well qualified to give a concise and up-to-date account of the problems of seasonality and agriculture in the developing world. It is a book that will be of interest to all disciplines in agricultural and related research in developing countries
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511565618
ER  -