Rural urbanization, land, and agriculture in Pakistan

Mughal, M. A. Z.

doi:10.1080/10225706.2018.1476255

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“…This is a medium‐ and long‐term plan, but the immediate plan is to encourage farmers to continue with agriculture farming and incentivise them to innovate farming practices and generate employment on the farms. Mughal () argues that farmers are abandoning agriculture and seeking other forms of employment that will provide them with stable cash flows. It is important to encourage farmers to continue with agriculture farming and provide the necessary support to farmers for them to be able to increase the productivity of agriculture farms.…”

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“…With the introduction of hybrid seeds, advanced technology, and capacity building of the farmers, a significant increase in the yields was noticed, but this growth in yield could not be sustained for a long period of time due to poor government policies and unequal ownership of land. Mughal () argued that rural urbanisation is increasing in the Pakistani Punjab, with a number of farmers abandoning agriculture and adopting lucrative occupations that would provide them with stable cash flows.…”

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Urbanisation, local food crop production and tourism output of Pakistan

Naidu¹,

Pandaram²,

Chand³

2019

Int Social Sci J

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The high rate of urban population growth is one of the major problems constraining the growth of urban centres. The main aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between urbanisation, local food crop production and the tourism output of Pakistan. The findings show that a 1 per cent increase in local food crop production will increase tourism output by 1.77 per cent, at the 1 per cent level of significance, holding all other variables constant. There is a unidirectional causality running from local food crop production to urbanisation. This study has implications for policy‐makers and practitioners.

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Urbanisation, local food crop production and tourism output of Pakistan

Naidu¹,

Pandaram²,

Chand³

2019

Int Social Sci J

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“…It may well be that Rajput-B and the different subgroups of Rajput-A represent different sub-clans of Rajputs, of which there are hundreds across South Asia 49,50 . An alternative explanation is that some people self-identifying as Rajputs actually have diverse ancestries since individuals from other subgroups chose to identify with this group to benefit from land allocations during British colonial times 24,51 or to increase their social status after migration to the UK 52 . The fact that Bains and the Rajput-B group appear to form a homogeneous genetic cluster is consistent with historical evidence that Bains is one of the Rajput families 53 .…”

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“…Most of the ethnic and tribal groups in Pakistan follow a patrilineal kinship system based on the biraderi (brotherhood) that shares its historical roots with the better-studied Indian caste system. The biraderi system is a means of attributing social status and providing mutual social support 24 . Some biraderi groups such as Rajput and Jatt have been present on the Indian sub-continent for the last 2,000-3,000 years [25][26][27] .…”

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Fine-scale population structure and demographic history of British Pakistanis

Arciero

Dogra

Mezzavilla

et al. 2020

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Previous genetic and public health research in the Pakistani population has focused on the role of consanguinity in increasing recessive disease risk, but little is known about its recent population history or the effects of endogamy. Here, we investigate fine-scale population structure, history and consanguinity patterns using genetic and questionnaire data from >4,000 British Pakistani individuals, mostly with roots in Azad Kashmir and Punjab. We reveal strong recent population structure driven by the biraderi social stratification system. We find that all subgroups have had low effective population sizes (Ne) over the last 50 generations, with some showing a decrease in Ne 15-20 generations ago that has resulted in extensive identity-by-descent sharing and increased homozygosity. Using new theory, we show that the footprint of regions of homozygosity in the two largest subgroups is about twice that expected naively based on the self-reported consanguinity rates and the inferred historical Ne trajectory. These results demonstrate the impact of the cultural practices of endogamy and consanguinity on population structure and genomic diversity in British Pakistanis, and have important implications for medical genetic studies.

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“…Here too we encounter rapid rural densification (Wotshela, 2018). However, this type of densification is different from processes emerging in Asia, where rural regions are becoming high-density zones of industrial ventures in place of small-scale agrarian activities (Mughal, 2018;Tan & Ding, 2008). By contrast, over 50% of South Africans living on 'communal' landholdings depend on state-issued social grants as their main source of income, while supplementing this income with subsistence farming practices (Budlender, Mgwebe, Motsepe & Williams, 2011;Ntingi, 2016).…”

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Exploring some of the complexities of planning on ‘communal land’ in the former Transkei

Winkler

2019

TRP

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The land question' in South African national politics continues to dominate partypolitical battles. However, most of these battles refrain from engaging with 'communal' landholdings that are under the custodianship of traditional leaders. Of further concern, the legislation not only remains ambiguous about traditional leaders' land administration functions and powers, but it is also conceptualised within Western frameworks. Ambiguity and Western centricity, in turn, hinder planning efforts and municipal service delivery in South Africa's rural regions, while residents continue to live without tenure security and enhanced socioeconomic prospects. By focusing on 'communal land', this article revisits African indigenous land laws, in order to gain a deeper understanding of contemporary tenure practices on 'communal' landholdings. The article identifies some of the planning complexities found in former Transkei. Possible recommendations include following an area-based approach to planning where community property associations (or similar structures) are explored with residents of some 'communal' landholdings, while traditional leadership structures are explored in other contexts. All role players should thus have equal decision-making powers over local land administration and development.

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Rural urbanization, land, and agriculture in Pakistan

Cited by 27 publications

References 10 publications

Urbanisation, local food crop production and tourism output of Pakistan

Urbanisation, local food crop production and tourism output of Pakistan

Fine-scale population structure and demographic history of British Pakistanis

Exploring some of the complexities of planning on ‘communal land’ in the former Transkei

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