This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys - for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru - and several thematic studies examining land, labour, rural financial markets, the environments, and disadvantaged groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity within the rural economy, the studies characterize three important groups - small farmers, landless farm workers, and rural non-farm workers - and provide quantitative and qualitative analyses of the determinants of household income.

Monograph comprising a comparison of relationship between landlessness and rural area poverty in eight Latin American countries - examines dimensions of poverty, agrarian structure, institutional framework, commercial farming and subsistence farming, social change, rural migration, worsening situation of agricultural workers and rural women, and outlines government policies, e.G. Increased rural employment through rural public works and rural industries, agricultural development, improved Terms of Trade and agrarian reform. Statistical tables.

Co-published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

This book provides insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru and several thematic studies examining land, labor, rural financial markets, the environments, and disadvantaged groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity within the rural economy, the studies characterize three important groups--small farmers, landless farm workers, and rural non-farm workers--and provide quantitative and qualitative analyses of the determinants of household income.