Empirical evidence indicates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, households on less favored, or marginal, agricultural land form a "residual" pool of rural labor. Although the modern sector may be the source of dynamic growth through learning-by-doing and knowledge spillovers, patterns of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Interdisciplinary Approach to Long-Term Welfare Effects of Displacement -- 3. Short-Term Versus Long-Term Effects of Forced Displacement -- 4. The long-term livelihood effects of the conservation-led displacement in Kanchanpur, Nepal -- 5. Attitudes Toward Land Acquisition...

Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to...