Rural Households in Emerging Societies : Technology and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

ISBN-13: 9780854967308 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 262 str.

Margaret R. Haswell; Diana Hunt; Margaret Haswell

Opis

The constantly changing circumstances of rural life in sub-Saharan Africa have brought with them both successes and failures. The essays in this volume examine the various pressures and inducements to changing resource-use patterns faced by rural households, and explore the two-way causal relationship between technology and technological change on the one hand and other key elements of rural change - demographic, environmental, economic, social, and political - on the other. Contemporary approaches to the introduction of technical innovations are examined, and new approaches are proposed. Through case studies of particular communities, the wide-ranging impacts of past experiences are assessed, and the causes and consequences of indigenous initiatives are explored.

Spis treści

Contents: P. Richards, Experimenting Farmers and Agricultural Research - R. Chambers and C. Toulmin, Farmer-First: Achieving Sustainable Dryland Development in Africa - D. Hunt, Farm System and Household Economy as Frameworks for Prioritising and Appraising Technical research: A Critical Appraisal of Current Approaches - P. Starkey, Animal Traction: Constraints and Impact among African Households - J.D. van der Ploeg, Autarky and Technical Change in Rice Production in Guinea Bissau: on the Importance of Commoditisation and Decommoditisation as Interrelated Processes - C. Toulmin, Staying Together: Household Responses to Risk and Market Malfunction in Mali - M. Haswell, Population and Change in a Gambian Rural Community: 1947-1987 - J.W. Harmsworth, The Impact of the Tobacco Industry on Rural Development and Farming Systems in Arua, Uganda - A. Cheater, Issues of Energy Autarky and Interdependence among Small-scale Commercial Farmers in Zimbabwe - D. Bruinsma and R. Nout, Choice of Technology in Food Processing for Rural Development

O autorze

Margaret Haswell Independent Consultant in Rural Development Diana Hunt Lecturer in Economics,School of African and Asian Studies, Sussex University