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LU0096

Rurality, Livelihood and Gender

This course is for you that want to learn more about an overview of the food security and social security situation of rural livelihoods, partly drawing on gender analysis.



The course elaborates on the interrelations between rural and urban, farm and non-farm strategies in building household livelihoods. The focus is on low-income countries and marginal areas of production and livelihoods, particularly regions in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa that are affected by poverty.



The course addresses the interconnections between rural development, gender and technology, institutions, food security, social security and poverty. Students will learn how to describe and critically discuss, amongst others, dominant policies and programmes in rural development, people’s motivations and livelihood strategies and gender and development theory.

Information from the course leader

2020-08-18
Welcome to the course Rurality, Livelihoods and Gender 2020!
Picninc lunch on Tuesday the 1:st of September . We will bring food, so no need for you to bring any lunch that day! There will be potato salad (gluten free) and pasta salad (dairy free) plus bread and butter, everything vegetarian. If you have any allergies so that you cannot eat this, please bring something for yourself. Dear all, Welcome to the course Rurality, Livelihoods and Gender 2020! The Rurality, Livelihoods and Gender course runs from 31st August to 1st November, 2020. It is one of the core courses of the Master Program in Rural Development offered at the Department of Urban and Rural Development at SLU. This year, and due to the coronavirus situation and SLU’s covid19 policies, we have made the necessary arrangements to keep social distancing and some of the course’s lectures will be offered online. This is a course designed to synthesize and discuss several theoretical and analytical approaches to the intersections between rurality, livelihoods and gender. This will include familiarizing you with current research perspectives on local and global dynamics and the use of different case studies representing contexts from both the global South and Global North. The course leaders are Johanna Bergman Lodin and Cristián Alarcón based at the division of Rural Development at the Department of Urban and Rural Development of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. We are fully aware that we will face important challenges dealing with the Covid19 situation, but we are confident that working together and having good communication with you, we will be able to have a great course. Please see information below, to see the schedule for the course and the literature list. Take care and we look forward to meeting you shortly, Johanna and Cristian

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

LU0096-10232 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for LU0096

Academic year 2023/2024

Rurality, Livelihood and Gender (LU0096-10386)

2023-08-28 - 2023-10-30

Academic year 2022/2023

Rurality, Livelihood and Gender (LU0096-10110)

2022-08-29 - 2022-10-31

Academic year 2021/2022

Rurality, Livelihood and Gender (LU0096-10258)

2021-08-30 - 2021-11-01

Academic year 2019/2020

Rurality, Livelihood and Gender (LU0096-10161)

2019-09-02 - 2019-10-31

Academic year 2018/2019

Rurality, Livelihood and Gender (LU0096-10162)

2018-09-03 - 2018-11-11

Syllabus and other information

Grading criteria

Grading criteria can be found at the end of the schedule document

Litterature list

  1. Literature “Rurality, livelihood and gender” (LU0096) 31st August– 1st November 2020 [Literature “Rurality, livelihood and gender” (LU0096) 31st August– 1st November 2020] (https://slunik.slu.se/kursfiler/LU0096/10232.2021/Literature_list_course_rurality_livelihoods_and_gender_2020_weekly_readings_01072020.pdf)

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes The course is offered as a programme course: Rural Development and Natural Resource Management - Master's Programme Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 27500 SEK Cycle: Master’s level (A1N)
Subject: Environmental Science Rural Development Rural Development Environmental science
Course code: LU0096 Application code: SLU-10232 Location: Uppsala Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Urban and Rural Development Pace: 100%