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livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers
This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia.
1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptualising and performing comparison of rural-urban dynamics -- 3. Small town development in the Ghanaian cocoa frontier -- 4. Living from coffee in Vietnam's Central Highlands: Susceptible livelihoods and diverse settlement transformations -- 5. Rise and fall of smallholder pineapple production in Ghana: Changing global markets, livelihoods and settlement growth -- 6. Transforming livelihoods and settlements: Fruit production and urbanisation in Vietnam's Mekong Delta -- 7. Agricultural frontier settlements: Markets, livelihood diversi.cation and small town development -- 8. Handicrafts in Vietnam: Rural urbanisation in the Red River Delta -- 9. A revolution in the Thai handicraft industry?: Handicrafts, integration and rural development in Northern Thailand -- 10. From farm to factory: Village change in a rice-growing region -- 11. Handicraft and manufacturing frontier: Transforming livelihoods, re-shap
edited by Jytte Agergaard, Niels Fold and Katherine V. Gough
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Includes bibliographical references (p 205) and index