Large-scale area-based conservation measures affect millions of people globally.
Understanding their social impacts is necessary to improve effectiveness and minimize …

Tracking change in rural communities over time is difficult. It is also important. If we are to
understand what forms of peasant poverty persist, or how and in what ways peasant …

Residents of informal settlements in urban centres in Africa are known to suffer
disproportionate burdens of environmental and socio-economic inequalities and are often …

This article uses the concept of convenience as an analytical prompt to investigate how
ideas about work organize a cash‐based social assistance program financed through …

Millions of households globally rely on uncultivated ecosystems for their livelihoods.
However, much of the understanding about the broader contribution of uncultivated …

This article analyses the patterns of poverty, prosperity, and rural transformation in Tanzania
through longitudinal research examining livelihoods and asset change in a 20-year period …

In the context of contract farming of sugarcane in an outgrower scheme in Tanzania, this
paper explores how the scheme has fundamentally altered people's relationships with the …

Throughout this collection we describe repeated instances of transformation. We have
frequently found that once-poor families appear to be richer due to better farming technology …

Introduction Livestock diseases are a big challenge for the livelihood of pastoralists in sub-
Saharan Africa because they reduce livestock productivity and increase mortality. Based on …

African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-
scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting …