Seasons of Hunger

Devereux, Stephen; Vaitla, Bapu.; Swan, Samuel Hauenstein

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“…Participants in our study are cash-poor and therefore deprived of basic necessities for daily living, 7 lack easy access to both formal and informal employment due to restrictions on mobility, and have little opportunity for leisure activities beyond socializing with friends or the occasional use of a mobile phone. While indeed, the value of employment depends on both the nature of work and the social mores surrounding employment, these three features are common to many forcibly displaced persons globally (45.7 million), as they are to the incarcerated (10.35 million), as well as many of the world's rural poor (300 million, many of whom suffer from seasonal scarcity in labor and consumption: see Devereux, Vaitla, and Swan (2008) for global estimates, Akram, Chowdhury, and Mobarak (2017) for a Bangladesh context, and Breza, Kaur, and Shamdasani (2020) for an Indian context).…”

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The Psychosocial Value of Employment

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Lane

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The Psychosocial Value of Employment

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Lane

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“…These lean months often correlate with harvest size, agricultural calendars, climate, higher staple food prices and the availability of rural employment and income. 26 Several frameworks analyse the causal forces that link poverty and hunger. 27 One explanatory framework analyses the historic political economic processes that shape the 'social spaces of vulnerability' to hunger, and focuses on hazards exposure, sensitivity and efforts to access food when crops fail or prices spike.…”

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Food sovereignty, food security and fair trade: the case of an influential Nicaraguan smallholder cooperative

Bacon

2015

Third World Quarterly

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The relationships among trade, food sovereignty and food security are underexplored. I conducted qualitative research with an influential cooperative to identify lessons that food sovereignty (FS) scholars could learn from fair trade and food security, and explore linkages among these projects. First, most co-op leaders and farmers view these projects as complementary, not contradictory. Second, state-led agrarian reforms and co-ops increase access to land, markets, water, forests and pasture, which have reduced -but not eliminated -seasonal hunger. Third, these diversified fair trade coffee-exporting smallholders could be part of a FS agenda. However, the split in fair trade suggests that only specific versions of fair trade are compatible with FS. Fourth, capable cooperatives can enhance fair trade and FS goals, and food security outcomes. Fifth, organised smallholders resisting the fair trade split could learn from the FS social movement's strategies. Food insecurity remains a persistent challenge to both approaches.

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“…It is multidimensional: manifests in financial, economic, material, social and environmental aspects of poverty (Chambers, 2012). Many scholarly studies have been conducted on the nature and effects of seasonal poverty (Chambers et al, 1981;Devereux et al, 2008Devereux et al, , 2012Devereux & Longhurst, 2009), as well as the significance of understanding seasonal poverty (Chambers, 1979(Chambers, , 1982(Chambers, , 2012. The studies claim that the nature of seasonal poverty varies by context (Devereux et al, 2012).…”

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Seasonal poverty in Zimbabwe and Cambodia: A comparative analysis of the developing world

Gweshengwe

2020

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It has been claimed that the nature of seasonal poverty is context- specific, but this claim is rarely substantiated. This study therefore ascertains whether the nature of seasonal poverty varies according to context. It examines this supposition by comparing the nature of seasonal poverty in both Zimbabwe and Cambodia. The study employed an exploratory methodology. It predominantly made use of secondary data, along with limited primary data. The results show that: (1) Both Zimbabwe and Cambodia experience climatic and non-climatic seasonal realities, however, some of these are peculiar to Cambodia. (2) The complexity of seasonal poverty in Zimbabwe and Cambodia is similar. (3) In both countries, seasonal poverty is more pronounced in the wet season. Thus, despite the remarkable contextual disparities between Zimbabwe and Cambodia, the nature of seasonal poverty in each country is, by and large, similar. Thus, the claim that seasonal poverty is context-specific is considered to be inaccurate. Since seasonal poverty is inevitable, the study recommends that Zimbabwe, Cambodia and other developing countries should factor the impact of this seasonal dimension into poverty reduction policies. The focus should be on minimizing the effects of seasonal poverty on the livelihoods of the poor and enhancing their resilience to seasonality.

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Seasons of Hunger

Cited by 7 publications

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The Psychosocial Value of Employment

The Psychosocial Value of Employment

Food sovereignty, food security and fair trade: the case of an influential Nicaraguan smallholder cooperative

Seasonal poverty in Zimbabwe and Cambodia: A comparative analysis of the developing world

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