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Author: John A. Houtkamp
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the initial banana exports from Africa between the World Wars, this book charts the rapid expansion of banana exports from some of the continent's countries to Europe and also reviews the similarities and differences of these projects.
Author: Erdener Kaynak
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1136747125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book applies marketing channel analysis to Africa's export agriculture and examines the opportunities, problems, and policies of the various channel members. You'll find a fresh and long-run view of export agriculture that is not entrapped in the current pessimism about downward trends in sub-Saharan Africa. The Trans-Oceanic Marketing Channel will open your eyes to vertical, ocean-straddling links between actors, particularly the exporters and importers.
Author: Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0429809786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1997, this volume asks whether Africa’s future is necessarily rooted in peasant agriculture. The title of this book, Farewell to Farms, is deliberately intended to challenge the widely held view that Africa is the world’s reserve for peasant farming. African rural populations are themselves moving away from a reliance on agriculture. ‘De-agrarianisation’ takes the form of urban migration as well as the expansion of non-agricultural activities in rural areas providing new income sources, occupations and social identities for rural dwellers. Using recent continent-wide case study evidence, the authors assess the impact of de-agrarianisation on household welfare, business performance and national development. Their findings, which reveal new economic trajectories and social patterns emerging from a period of accelerated change, call into question assumptions about Africa’s future place in the world division of labour.
Author: P. McAllister
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-29
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 100016036X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2001. "This is also a study of rural Xhosa identity and community, and its survival in the face of the overwhelming odds stacked against it by colonialism and apartheid. The maintenance of homestead production can be properly understood only if this wider context is taken into consideration. The analysis is thus directly relevant to current debates about agrarian change, land reform and economic development in South Africa's communal areas, since it shows how some rural Xhosa are able to maintain a sense of community and identity, and of how they are able to harness the socio-cultural resources at their disposal to engage in productive activity, with some success."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Tjalling Dijkstra
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0429775695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1997, this volume contributes to the knowledge for the trade of vegetables, fruits and tubers (so-called horticultural commodities). As African policy makers try to keep pace with new developments in private food trade, they require knowledge of the structures of private trade systems and the factors that govern their long-term development. The study analyses the structure and development of horticultural marketing channels in Kenya. It is based primarily on surveys of some 500 farmers in four districts and 750 horticultural traders in 18 market places. Commercial horticultural farmers, domestic traders, export traders, agents, facilitators, marketing cooperatives and processors are all reviewed. The study devotes special attention to the efficiency of collecting wholesalers, and to the development of rural assembly markets. It develops a model which can elucidate vertical differentiation processes in the Kenyan horticultural channels. The analyses show that marketing channel theory can be of great relevance to the developing world. The proposed vertical differentiation model can aid in predicting future changes in horticultural marketing systems, in Kenya as well as in other African countries.
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 846
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Isaac Sindiga
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0429774125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1999, this book is a contribution to the debate on tourism and Third World development. The general goal of the study is to assess whether tourism is a viable development strategy for Africa, using the example of Kenya. More specifically, the book assesses the contribution of tourism in development; documents the development of tourism in Kenya; examines the outcomes of international tourism on the environment and society in Kenya; examines the response of Kenyan communities to international tourism; and makes recommendations for alternative tourism strategies with applicability to other African countries.
Author: K. van Walraven
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 0429640285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1999, this book was the first study to provide a systematic reconstruction of the OAU's ideological ground-work. It is based on OAU documents; a corpus of African perceptions of OAU functioning collected from governmental and non-governmental newspapers and publications from more than thirty African countries; and on interviews held with African diplomats and OAU officials. It was also the first study to pay attention to the OAU's role in the political psychology of state elites, which comes to the fore in the areas of OAU co-operation discussed in this book: the OAU's internal functioning; the former struggle against apartheid and colonialism; conflict management; and the OAU's role in representing collective African viewpoints in global fora. This study was originally a Ph.D. thesis, which was considered to be among the best three dissertations in political science in The Netherlands in 1997.
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 736
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gerda Rossel
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA more technical problem is formed by the classification and nomenclature of plantain cultivars. Until now this problem has not been satisfactorily solved, and suggestions to this end are therefore presented in this study.
