Richard Longhurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Longhurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Longhurst |
| SIGNATURE | LONGHURST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How do the state’s organisational capacities at the micro- and macro-levels influence agriculture-nutrition linkages in fragile contexts
Introduction
Development policy, practice and research have largely adhered to a North–South, geographic and aid-driven view of the world. Over the last ten years the approaches of South–South cooperation have also come to prominence. However, more attention is being paid to universal development based on the assumption that development challenges are as relevant for the North as for the South, with many common problems. More needs to be known about the natur…
Incorporating Seasonality into Agricultural Project Design and Learning
Seasonality can be extremely damaging to the lives and livelihoods of rural people, but this is rarely recognised and factored into the design and implementation of agricultural projects. During the annual hungry season, farmers face empty granaries, high food prices and waterborne diseases, which compel them to adopt 'coping strategies' that perpetuate poverty ratchets. Seasonal employment programmes can smooth income and consumption but could o…
Evaluation
The overall objective of this article is to discuss current theoretical debates in the evaluation literature to assess their relevance for agriculture. After noting the 'bad press' of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in agriculture, the literature is selectively reviewed to see what light is shed from different evaluation paradigms and methodologies. Experiences in the health sector are then examined in greater depth, emphasising debates around ra…
Seasons and nutrition at the Kenya Coast
Enriching Lives
The Assessment of Community Vulnerability in Hazard Prone Areas, The Royal Society, London, 31 March 1995
Conceptual Frameworks for Linking Relief and Development
This article attempts to clarify the conceptual confusion underlying current discussions of linking relief and development. The confusion takes the form of
Modernising hunger famine, food surplus and farm policy in the EEC and Africa
New Seeds and Poor People
New Seeds and Poor People
Sierra Leone
Structural Adjustment and Vulnerable Groups in Sierra Leone
The major elements of a structural adjustment package in Sierra Leone comprised flotation of the leone in June 1986 and removal of subsidies on rice and petrol. By April 1987 the leone had depreciated by 90 per cent (from Le6 = $1 to Le50 = $1), and the price of a cup of rice had increased 21⁄2?3 times. The monthly cost of severely reduced meals for a family of five was about Le1000, which should be compared with a minimum government wage of Le25…
Cash Crops, Household Food Security and Nutrition
This article examines two main questions: what does the available evidence reveal about the impact on household food security and nutrition of a shift from semi-subsistance to cash cropping? Does this evidence, used together with present analytical frameworks, allow us to develop any predictive ability or typologies as to the impact on food consumption and nutrition of specific types of crops in different policy situations
Drought and hunger in Africa
Journal Article Drought and hunger in Africa: denying famine a future and The greening of Africa: breaking through in the battle for land and food Get access Drought and hunger in Africa: denying famine a future. Edited by Michael H. Glantz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987. 457pp. Index. £37.50. ISBN 0 521 32679 6.The greening of Africa: breaking through in the battle for land and food. By Paul Harrison. London: Grafton/Collins for In…
Trees, Seasons and the Poor
Trees play a significant role in poor people's seasonal livelihoods: this has been a neglected subject due to interlocking biases against understanding how the poor secure their incomes, and ignorance of the multipurpose role of trees. Trees play an important seasonal role through their physical characteristics: deep rooting with access to moisture and nutrients year round. Accumulation of stocks in the form of wood and various beneficial environ…
Seasonality and Poverty
There is great diversity in the way different groups of people are affected by seasonality and cope with it. Greater understanding of this diversity is required if policy and project interventions are to strengthen the position of poor rural people. The damaging periods of time can sometimes be very short, regularly crippling families in their efforts to accumulate resources and protect their health. In sub?Saharan Africa seasonality is clearly a…
Household Food Strategies in Response to Seasonality and Famine
Poor rural families plan for food shortages both seasonally and for unexpected inter-seasonal events. This rather obvious fact of life is not often incorporated into planning of agricultural development activities. Comparatively little is known about the insurance mechanisms which families employ to ensure their household food security: their nature and resilience and how far different types of families use different mechanisms, and how rural dev…
Life before the drought
The politics of agriculture in tropical Africa
Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty
Seasonal dimensions to rural poverty
Agriculture in the Third World a spatial analysis
Seasonal dimensions to rural poverty
Household Food Strategies in Response to Seasonality and Famine
Poor rural families plan for food shortages both seasonally and for unexpected inter-seasonal events. This rather obvious fact of life is not often incorporated into planning of agricultural development activities. Comparatively little is known about the insurance mechanisms which families employ to ensure their household food security: their nature and resilience and how far different types of families use different mechanisms, and how rural dev…
Cash Crops, Household Food Security and Nutrition
This article examines two main questions: what does the available evidence reveal about the impact on household food security and nutrition of a shift from semi-subsistance to cash cropping? Does this evidence, used together with present analytical frameworks, allow us to develop any predictive ability or typologies as to the impact on food consumption and nutrition of specific types of crops in different policy situations
Conceptual Frameworks for Linking Relief and Development
This article attempts to clarify the conceptual confusion underlying current discussions of linking relief and development. The confusion takes the form of
Structural Adjustment and Vulnerable Groups in Sierra Leone
The major elements of a structural adjustment package in Sierra Leone comprised flotation of the leone in June 1986 and removal of subsidies on rice and petrol. By April 1987 the leone had depreciated by 90 per cent (from Le6 = $1 to Le50 = $1), and the price of a cup of rice had increased 21⁄2?3 times. The monthly cost of severely reduced meals for a family of five was about Le1000, which should be compared with a minimum government wage of Le25…
The Assessment of Community Vulnerability in Hazard Prone Areas, The Royal Society, London, 31 March 1995
How do the state’s organisational capacities at the micro- and macro-levels influence agriculture-nutrition linkages in fragile contexts
Trees, Seasons and the Poor
Trees play a significant role in poor people's seasonal livelihoods: this has been a neglected subject due to interlocking biases against understanding how the poor secure their incomes, and ignorance of the multipurpose role of trees. Trees play an important seasonal role through their physical characteristics: deep rooting with access to moisture and nutrients year round. Accumulation of stocks in the form of wood and various beneficial environ…
Seasonality and Poverty
There is great diversity in the way different groups of people are affected by seasonality and cope with it. Greater understanding of this diversity is required if policy and project interventions are to strengthen the position of poor rural people. The damaging periods of time can sometimes be very short, regularly crippling families in their efforts to accumulate resources and protect their health. In sub?Saharan Africa seasonality is clearly a…
Agriculture in the Third World a spatial analysis
Seasonal dimensions to rural poverty
Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty
The politics of agriculture in tropical Africa
Trees, Seasons and the Poor
Trees play a significant role in poor people's seasonal livelihoods: this has been a neglected subject due to interlocking biases against understanding how the poor secure their incomes, and ignorance of the multipurpose role of trees. Trees play an important seasonal role through their physical characteristics: deep rooting with access to moisture and nutrients year round. Accumulation of stocks in the form of wood and various beneficial environ…
Seasonality and Poverty
There is great diversity in the way different groups of people are affected by seasonality and cope with it. Greater understanding of this diversity is required if policy and project interventions are to strengthen the position of poor rural people. The damaging periods of time can sometimes be very short, regularly crippling families in their efforts to accumulate resources and protect their health. In sub?Saharan Africa seasonality is clearly a…
Household Food Strategies in Response to Seasonality and Famine
Poor rural families plan for food shortages both seasonally and for unexpected inter-seasonal events. This rather obvious fact of life is not often incorporated into planning of agricultural development activities. Comparatively little is known about the insurance mechanisms which families employ to ensure their household food security: their nature and resilience and how far different types of families use different mechanisms, and how rural dev…
Life before the drought
Sierra Leone
Structural Adjustment and Vulnerable Groups in Sierra Leone
The major elements of a structural adjustment package in Sierra Leone comprised flotation of the leone in June 1986 and removal of subsidies on rice and petrol. By April 1987 the leone had depreciated by 90 per cent (from Le6 = $1 to Le50 = $1), and the price of a cup of rice had increased 21⁄2?3 times. The monthly cost of severely reduced meals for a family of five was about Le1000, which should be compared with a minimum government wage of Le25…
Cash Crops, Household Food Security and Nutrition
This article examines two main questions: what does the available evidence reveal about the impact on household food security and nutrition of a shift from semi-subsistance to cash cropping? Does this evidence, used together with present analytical frameworks, allow us to develop any predictive ability or typologies as to the impact on food consumption and nutrition of specific types of crops in different policy situations
Drought and hunger in Africa
Journal Article Drought and hunger in Africa: denying famine a future and The greening of Africa: breaking through in the battle for land and food Get access Drought and hunger in Africa: denying famine a future. Edited by Michael H. Glantz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987. 457pp. Index. £37.50. ISBN 0 521 32679 6.The greening of Africa: breaking through in the battle for land and food. By Paul Harrison. London: Grafton/Collins for In…
Modernising hunger famine, food surplus and farm policy in the EEC and Africa
New Seeds and Poor People
New Seeds and Poor People
Conceptual Frameworks for Linking Relief and Development
This article attempts to clarify the conceptual confusion underlying current discussions of linking relief and development. The confusion takes the form of
The Assessment of Community Vulnerability in Hazard Prone Areas, The Royal Society, London, 31 March 1995
Enriching Lives
Seasons and nutrition at the Kenya Coast
Incorporating Seasonality into Agricultural Project Design and Learning
Seasonality can be extremely damaging to the lives and livelihoods of rural people, but this is rarely recognised and factored into the design and implementation of agricultural projects. During the annual hungry season, farmers face empty granaries, high food prices and waterborne diseases, which compel them to adopt 'coping strategies' that perpetuate poverty ratchets. Seasonal employment programmes can smooth income and consumption but could o…
Evaluation
The overall objective of this article is to discuss current theoretical debates in the evaluation literature to assess their relevance for agriculture. After noting the 'bad press' of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in agriculture, the literature is selectively reviewed to see what light is shed from different evaluation paradigms and methodologies. Experiences in the health sector are then examined in greater depth, emphasising debates around ra…
Introduction
Development policy, practice and research have largely adhered to a North–South, geographic and aid-driven view of the world. Over the last ten years the approaches of South–South cooperation have also come to prominence. However, more attention is being paid to universal development based on the assumption that development challenges are as relevant for the North as for the South, with many common problems. More needs to be known about the natur…
How do the state’s organisational capacities at the micro- and macro-levels influence agriculture-nutrition linkages in fragile contexts
Economics (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Agricultural economics (4 works)