{"id":842,"date":"2014-01-09T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/?p=842"},"modified":"2016-08-09T10:13:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:13:41","slug":"the-rural-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/2014\/2014\/the-rural-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"The rural transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>| By J. Berdegu\u00e9, T. Rosada, and A. Bebbington | Published in<em> International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects<\/em>, pp. 463-478. Edited by B. Currie-Alder, R. Kanbur, D. Malone, and R. Medhora. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>This chapter discusses the rural transformation, a process of comprehensive societal change\u00a0whereby rural societies diversify their economies and reduce their reliance on agriculture;\u00a0become dependent on distant places to trade and to acquire goods, services, and ideas; move\u00a0from dispersed villages to towns and small and medium cities; and become culturally more\u00a0similar to large urban agglomerations. The rural transformation is the result, first of all, of the\u00a0action of global drivers, such as the diversification of rural economies away from agriculture, the\u00a0globalization of agrifood systems, and the urbanization of rural regions. While global forces\u00a0drive this transformation, they are mediated by localized social structures, institutional\u00a0frameworks, and local societies with different levels of human agency. The interplay of global\u00a0and local factors explains why the rural transformation between and within different countries\u00a0has different outcomes in terms of economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental\u00a0sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| By J. Berdegu\u00e9, T. Rosada, and A. Bebbington | Published in International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects, pp. 463-478. Edited by B. Currie-Alder, R. Kanbur, D. Malone, and R. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25266,35094],"tags":[28776,34944,24544,34946,34851,34948,34848,34943,34947,34945],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25266","category-book-chapters-and-other-journal-articles","tag-agriculture","tag-agrifood-systems","tag-development","tag-economic-diversification","tag-institutions","tag-local-institutions","tag-rural-development","tag-rural-transformation","tag-social-structures","tag-urbanization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}