IDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Subsistence Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa, Usufruct
25 Dec 2012
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The rural exists in two forms in the assumption that rural exists as a real entity that needs to be developed: Material form with a spatial identity: as an area of low population density, agricultural or resource- based in its livelihoods. Ideal form: the romance and terror of the village of tight knit communities, maternal hearths, and masculine patriarchal power, nature, redolent of fresh air, dirt, hard work and disease and the freedom of isolation and desolation. What also underpins this is the ideal that rural areas are everything urban is not, an urban area must typically contain a certain non-agricultural production base and minimum population level the opposite of this is classified as rural. A relative abundance of natural capital (land, water, soil, trees, etc. ) and therefore a dependence on and vulnerability to the unpredictable elements of the natural environment. A relative abundance of labour which is structured on the basis of gender and age.
