Rural Households in Emerging Societies

Technology and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Herausgeber: Haswell, Margaret; Hunt, Diana

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780367717063
• ISBN-10: 0367717069
• Artikelnr.: 69890393

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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