Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty

Download or read book Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty written by Robert Chambers and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1981 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph emanating from a conference report on climatic influences and related seasonalities on extent of rural area poverty and living conditions in tropical zones of developing countries - examines effects on birth rates, morbidity and mortality, agricultural employment of seasonal workers, etc., and discusses relationships between rainfall and occurrences of infectious diseases, consumer prices, food shortage and malnutrition. Bibliographys, graphs, maps and statistical tables. List of participants. Conference held in Brighton 1978 Jul 4 to 7.