Prof David Lewis OLD2.40

This course is available on the MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change, MSc in Environmental Policy, Technology and Health (Environmental Economics and Climate Change) (LSE and Peking University) and MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

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Non-ID students will be allocated to spare places by random selection with the preference given first to those degrees where the regulations permit this option.

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Knowledge of rural areas and relevant work experience is desirable but not essential. Knowledge of sociological and anthropological approaches to studying rural development also desirable.

This Course considers: Theories of rural development and transformation, history of rural development policy, changing rural livelihoods, land and agrarian reform, agricultural research and extension, the roles of private and non-governmental actors, natural resource management, food security, climate change and rural-urban linkages.

15 hours of lectures and 15 hours of seminars in the LT. 1 hour and 30 minutes of lectures and 1 hour and 30 minutes of seminars in the ST.

A formative 1500 word essay is required, and feedback will be provided.

A detailed reading list is included in the seminar programme. The following is an introductory reading list:

• J Boltvinik & SA Mann (eds.) Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the 21st century: Theories, Debates, Realities and Policies (2016);
• T M Li, Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (2014);
• I Scoones & J Thompson, Farmer First Revisited (2009);
• R McAreavey, Rural Development Theory and Practice (2009);
• A Shepherd, Sustainable Rural Development (1998);
• B Crow & H Bernstein (Eds), Rural Lives: Crises and Responses (1992);
• N Long, Development Sociology: Actor Perspectives (2001);
• Rural Development Report 2016: Fostering Inclusive Rural Transformation (IFAD, 2016).

Essay (100%, 3500 words) in the ST.

Students are required to write an assessed essay of 3,500 words.

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