Development Practice And Hidden Text

Why the projects to improve the livelihood of poor farmers is to failure?This is a basic concern. The article tries to implement a two-year projects ofcommunity development as an example in central Gansu province, in-depthdescription of how development projects are productived out, as well as projectdevelopment agencies and farmers in the interaction process, to discuss effortslivelihoods of poor farmers to improve project failure reasons.Article from the perspective of farmers, in-depth analysis of householdlivelihoods and the logic behind the structure, to construct concepts of "livingspace" and " livelihoods balance ",that living space is narrow and difficult tobreak the livelihood balance is the really reason for failure of developmentprojects.Development agencies through the analysis of the persistence of"development discourse" and the poor farmers "hidden text" the interactionbetween the process that the two belong to two different sets of discourse, it isdifficult for effective dialogue, lead to "goal displacement" as an importantreason for project failure.This article attempts to establish a "living space - multiple livelihood -livelihoods balance " interpretation of the framework, to carry out projectdesign for the new analysis perspective, In order to grasp the livelihoods ofpoor farmers and the operation of the internal mechanism.Meanwhile, thearticle effectively respond to the "rational peasant - moral peasant" dispute, thatthe farmers in different production and living standards are not motivated, it is adynamic process of history. Finally, with Scott's "national perspective","survival ethic", "Hidden Text" three aspects of thinking of the dialogue.