Seasonality, rural livelihoods and development edited by Stephen Devereux, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Richard Longhurst

Includes bibliographical references and index

Front Cover; Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Acronyms and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Seasonality revisited: new perspectives on seasonal poverty: Stephen Devereux, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Richard Longhurst; Part 1: Seasonal lives: Dee Jupp; 2. What happened to the seasons? Farmers' perceptions and meteorological observations of changing seasonality: John Magrath, Steve Jennings; 3. Month of birth and children's health in India: Michael Lokshin, Sergiy Radyakin. 4. Seasonal hunger, famine and the dynamics of HIV in Malawi: Michael Loevinsohn5. Seasonal poverty: integrated, overlooked and therefore opportunity: Robert Chambers; Part 2: Seasonal livelihoods: Anirudh Krishna; 6. Seasonality and poverty: evidence from Malawi: Ephraim W. Chirwa, Andrew Dorward, Marcella Vigneri; 7. The stabilizing effect of irrigation on seasonal expenditure: evidence from rural Andhra Pradesh: Edoardo Masset; 8. Seasonal dimensions of household wellbeing and labour migration in rural southern China: Shijun Ding, Haitao Wu, Yuping Chen. 9. Off-farm work in the Peruvian Altiplano: seasonal and geographic considerations for agricultural and development policies: Cecilia Turin, Corinne ValdiviaPart 3: Seasonal awareness: Robert Chambers; 10. Food affordability: dealing with seasonal variation of purchasing power: Hélène Berton, Jennie Hilton, Anna Taylor; 11. Modelling seasonality in household income using the Household Economy Approach: Charles Rethman; 12. Re-tooling for seasonality: seasonally sensitive disaster risk assessment in Ethiopia: Tanya Boudreau, Mark Lawrence. 13. Water-bound geographies of seasonality: Investigating seasonality, water and wealth in Ethiopia through the Water Economy for Livelihoods (WELS) approach: Lorraine Coulter, Zemede Abebe, Seifu Kebede, Eva Ludi and Belay ZelekePart 4: Seasonal policies: Stephen Devereux; 14. How planning for seasonality can reduce extreme poverty: lessons from the Chars Livelihoods Programme (2004-2010), Bangladesh: Kate Conroy, Catherine Vignon; 15. Seasonality and capital in farm household models: Andrew Dorward; 16. Seasonality and access to education in sub-Saharan Africa: Sierd Hadley. 17. From seasonal lives towards a-seasonal living: building seasonality into risk management response: Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Stephen DevereuxReferences; Index.

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods, and extremes in weather have consequences for agriculture, employment, food supply and the spread of disease, particularly for developing countries. This book is a systematic study which aims to revive interest and awareness of this crucial but neglected issue, especially as climate change and development affect the world.