Rural households in emerging societies : technology and change in sub-Saharan Africa

Author(s)

• Haswell, Margaret Rosary
• Hunt, Diana

Bibliographic Information

Rural households in emerging societies : technology and change in sub-Saharan Africa

edited by Margaret Haswell and Diana Hunt

Berg Publishers , Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1991

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA13568502
• ISBN:
  • 0854967303
• LCCN: 90026657
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [England] ; New York,New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 261 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HN780.Z9
  • DC20 : 307.1/412/0967
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rural development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • LCSH : Rural development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Family farms -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • LCSH : Family farms -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies