ABSTRACT
Seasonality was tailor-made for Robert Chambers’ talents, and in particular his extraordinary inventive thinking and boundless energy and enthusiasm for cross-disciplinary analysis. Seasonality should not be carved up by professionals looking only at their specialism, whether that is food production, health, nutrition, prices and wages or social relations. Seasonality has multiple, interacting effects, and rural people face them all. Although the impact of seasonality is very obvious to the rural poor, the same cannot be said for those living and working mostly in urban areas who design policies, programmes and projects and carry out research on how to improve the rural poor’s livelihoods and welfare.
