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Zusatztext '...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 Informationen zum Autor Margaret Haswell Independent Consultant in Rural Development Diana Hunt Lecturer in Economics,School of African and Asian Studies, Sussex University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: P. Richards, Experimenting Farmers and Agricultural Research - R. Chambers and C. Toulmin, Farmer-First: Achieving Sustainable Dryland Development in Africa - D. Hunt, Farm System and Household Economy as Frameworks for Prioritising and Appraising Technical research: A Critical Appraisal of Current Approaches - P. Starkey, Animal Traction: Constraints and Impact among African Households - J.D. van der Ploeg, Autarky and Technical Change in Rice Production in Guinea Bissau: on the Importance of Commoditisation and Decommoditisation as Interrelated Processes - C. Toulmin, Staying Together: Household Responses to Risk and Market Malfunction in Mali - M. Haswell, Population and Change in a Gambian Rural Community: 1947-1987 - J.W. Harmsworth, The Impact of the Tobacco Industry on Rural Development and Farming Systems in Arua, Uganda - A. Cheater, Issues of Energy Autarky and Interdependence among Small-scale Commercial Farmers in Zimbabwe - D. Bruinsma and R. Nout, Choice of Technology in Food Processing for Rural Development...
