Overview
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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Author: Margaret Haswell ,
Diana Hunt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.317kg
ISBN: 9780367717063
ISBN 10: 0367717069
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 31 March 2021
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
...a useful and insightful work which deserves to be influential. --Development Policy Review These case studies are very useful material for anybody interested in working at the grassroot level of economic development and technological change (and students) of development economics ... who want to venture out of textbook to have a feel of the real world. --Science, Technology and Development The contributions are marvellously varied, each contriving to do justice to empirical complexity with descriptive brevity. --MAN The book as a whole or individual chapters could be valuable teaching material for first or second-year undergraduates. --Journal of Agricultural Economics
"""...a useful and insightful work which deserves to be influential."" --Development Policy Review ""These case studies are very useful material for anybody interested in working at the grassroot level of economic development and technological change (and students) of development economics ... who want to venture out of textbook to have a feel of the real world."" --Science, Technology and Development ""The contributions are marvellously varied, each contriving to do justice to empirical complexity with descriptive brevity."" --MAN ""The book as a whole or individual chapters could be valuable teaching material for first or second-year undergraduates."" --Journal of Agricultural Economics"
Author Information
Margaret Haswell Independent Consultant in Rural Development Diana Hunt Lecturer in Economics,School of African and Asian Studies, Sussex University
