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

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Other Authors: Haswell, Margaret, 1917-, Hunt, Diana, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : New York : Berg Publishers ; Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • Experimenting farmers and agricultural research / Paul Richards
  • Farmer-first : achieving sustainable dryland development in Africa / Robert Chambers and Camilla Toulmin
  • Farm system and household economy as frameworks for prioritising and appraising technical research : a critical appraisal of current approaches / Diana Hunt
  • Animal traction : constraints and impact among African households / Paul Starkey
  • Autarky and technical change in rice production in Guinea Bissau : on the importance of commoditisation and decommoditisation as interrelated processes / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
  • Staying together : household responses to risk and market malfunction in Mali / Camilla Toulmin
  • Population and change in a Gambian rural community, 1947-1987 / Margaret Haswell
  • The impact of the tobacco industry on rural development and farming systems in Arua, Uganda / Josephine Wanja Harmsworth.
  • Issues of energy autarky and interdependence among small-scale commercial farmers in Zimbabwe / Angela Cheater
  • Choice of technology in food processing for rural development / Domien Bruinsma and Robert Nout.