Farewell to Farms

Farewell to Farms

Author: Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0429809786

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First 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.


The Trans-Oceanic Marketing Channel

The Trans-Oceanic Marketing Channel

Author: Erdener Kaynak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1136747125

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This 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.


Building the Homestead

Building the Homestead

Author: P. McAllister

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 100016036X

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This 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.


Dreams of Power

Dreams of Power

Author: K. van Walraven

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0429640285

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Originally 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.


Tourism and African Development

Tourism and African Development

Author: Isaac Sindiga

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0429774125

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First 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.


Taxonomic-linguistic Study of Plantain in Africa

Taxonomic-linguistic Study of Plantain in Africa

Author: Gerda Rossel

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13:

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A 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.