Development from Within (eBook, ePUB)

Survival in Rural Africa
Redaktion: Taylor, D. R. F.; Mackenzie, Fiona

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The enormous range of contexts in Africa - social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental - limits the value of the search for universal solutions to endemic problems. First published in 1992, Development from Within examines an alternative framework, arguing for flexibility and specificity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040118634
• Artikelnr.: 72281024

Autorenporträt

D. R. F. Taylor is Chancellor's Distinguished Research Professor of International Affairs, Geography and Environmental Studies, and Director of the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. In December 2021, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. He is recipient of the Killam Prize for the Social Sciences, Canada's highest academic honour (2014). Fiona Mackenzie is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her research has focused on issues to do with land and the environment in Sub Saharan Africa. She has worked with both archival sources and personal narratives to reconstruct histories of land and labour in rural Kenya, recognising differences of race, class and gender in these histories.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Development from within? The struggle to survive 2. Local farmer
organizations and rural development in Zimbabwe 3. The indigenous responses
of a Ghanian rural community to seasonal food supply cycles and the
socio-environmental stresses of the 1980s 4. The co-operative credit union
movement in north-western Ghana: Development agent or agent of
incorporation? 5. Survival in rural Africa: The salt co-operatives in Ada
district, Ghana 6. Local coping strategies in Machakos District, Kenya 7.
Household based tree planting activities for fuelwood supply in rural Kenya
8. Local coping strategies in Dodoma district, Tanzania 9. The informal
sector: A strategy for survival in Tanzania 10. Development from within and
survival in rural Africa: A synthesis of theory and practice