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Youth, Farming and Precarity in Rural Burundi

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  • Lidewyde Berckmoes

    (Department of Technology and Society, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands)

  • Ben White

    (International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands.)

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Nous explorons les ressources des jeunes ruraux dans l’est du Burundi après la guerre. En combinant des idées à partir des études agraires et des études sur la jeunesse nous défendons qu’une approche générationnelle assiste à exposer les problèmes structurels de la reproduction sociale des communes rurales. Les jeunes hommes et femmes éprouvent leurs moyens de subsistance et les préparations pour vivre en ménage indépendant comme ‘insuffisant’. Ils sont conscients que leur mode d’héritage des terres et la façon de les cultiver ne sont plus durables, cela les orientent vers des alternatives pour « trouver la vie ». Notamment, l’éducation formelle et du genre influencent les stratégies de la migration circulaire et du mariage, et expose les jeunes aux épreuves et aux violences en différentes manières. Contrairement aux suppositions souvent exprimées concernant les jeunes ruraux africains, la majorité des jeunes aspire à un avenir dans l’agriculture, dans des conditions meilleures.

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  • Lidewyde Berckmoes & Ben White, 2014. "Youth, Farming and Precarity in Rural Burundi," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 26(2), pages 190-203, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:26:y:2014:i:2:p:190-203
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    1. James Sumberg & Thomas Yeboah & Justin Flynn & Nana Akua Anyidoho, 2017. "Young people’s perspectives on farming in Ghana: a Q study," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 9(1), pages 151-161, February.
    2. Grace Muthoni Mwaura, 2017. "Just Farming? Neoliberal Subjectivities and Agricultural Livelihoods among Educated Youth in Kenya," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 48(6), pages 1310-1335, November.
    3. Schwarz, Joëlle & Dumbaugh, Mari & Bapolisi, Wyvine & Ndorere, Marie Souavis & Mwamini, Marie-Chantale & Bisimwa, Ghislain & Merten, Sonja, 2019. "“So that's why I'm scared of these methods”: Locating contraceptive side effects in embodied life circumstances in Burundi and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 220(C), pages 264-272.
    4. Ben White, 2021. "Human Capital Theory and the Defectology of Aspirations in Policy Research on Rural Youth," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 33(1), pages 54-70, February.
    5. Frederick Amon-Armah & Nana Akua Anyidoho & Isaac Alvin Amoah & Sander Muilerman, 2023. "A Typology of Young Cocoa Farmers: Attitudes, Motivations and Aspirations," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 35(4), pages 770-793, August.
    6. Moreda, Tsegaye, 2023. "The social dynamics of access to land, livelihoods and the rural youth in an era of rapid rural change: Evidence from Ethiopia," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
    7. Roy Huijsmans & Aprilia Ambarwati & Charina Chazali & M. Vijayabaskar, 2021. "Farming, Gender and Aspirations Across Young People’s Life Course: Attempting to Keep Things Open While Becoming a Farmer," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 33(1), pages 71-88, February.
    8. Joëlle Schwarz & René Manirakiza & Sonja Merten, 2022. "Reproductive Governance in a Fragile and Population-Dense Context: Family Planning Policies, Discourses, and Practices in Burundi," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 34(6), pages 2666-2687, December.

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