Download or read book Small Farms in West Africa written by African Rural Economy Program and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An African Green Revolution written by Keijiro Otsuka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, half the population lived on less than on dollar a day, and a staggering one in three people and one third of all children were undernourished. Africa has abundant natural resources; agriculture provides most of its jobs, a third of national income and a larger portion of total export earnings. However the levels of land and labor productivity rank among the worst in the world. The book explains Africa’s productivity gap and proposes ways to close it, by examining recent experience in Africa and by drawing on lessons from Asia.
Download or read book Small Farms in a Changing World written by Susan Casement and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Farm Equipment for Developing Countries written by and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of small farm equipment; Land preparation; Irrigation; Seeding and planting; Plant protection and soil fertility; Harvesting; Threshing; Grain drying; Improving research and development, manufacturing, marketing, extension and use of small farm equipment.
Download or read book Appropriate Technologies for Farmers in Semi arid West Africa written by Herbert W. Ohm and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development Dimension Cotton in West Africa The Economic and Social Stakes written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when trade negotiations on cotton have been suspended, the publication contends that with 16 million people in West African being dependent on cotton production, the dialogue between developed and developing countries must continue and sets out a framework for discussions.
Download or read book The Future of Small Farms for Poverty Reduction and Growth written by Hazell, P.B.R. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Environments and Resources written by L. A. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this work provides a comprehensive picture of the range of physical environments in Africa, focusing upon those characteristics and issues central to the management of environmental resources. Beginning with an overview of the geographical and environmental history of Africa, the authors also provide to the evolution of the management of resources and then details a broadly defined ecosystem approach, in which major environmental resource issues are identified and addressed in the tropical rainforest, the Savannah dry-forest, the arid and semi-arid areas, the highlands, and the extra-tropical zones of Northern and Southern Africa. The book is designed to contribute to a better understanding of African environmental and resource-management problems and this reissue should be welcomed by students of Africa and of environmental resource management problems in general.
Download or read book Economics Of The Family And Farming Systems In Sub saharan Africa written by Ram D Singh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an integrated analysis of the dynamics of the economics of households and farm production in the setting of a polygynous family structure and traditional agriculture in sub-Saharan rural Africa. It focuses on some basic facts about poverty among the farm people of rural Africa.
Download or read book Improving Food Crop Production on Small Farms in Africa written by J. C. Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West African Worlds written by Reginald Cline-Cole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africa’s most populous and arguably most externally focused region. With an emphasis on globalisation and modernisation, case studies and commentary are integrated throughout to highlight the concerns and issues of the region. Enriched by an impressive mix of West African voices, this text combines theory and application with policy and practice to address socio-economic change, the pursuit of livelihoods, and development within West Africa.
Download or read book Rural Livelihoods written by Henry Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the question of how people in developing countries survive, and how their lives have been affected by the great changes since the Second World War. Throughout large parts of the developing world rural livelihoods are in crisis. Even in those parts of the third world where there has been growth of food output, that growth has rarely been translated into a commensurate expansion of livelihoods. Frequently, both economic stagnation and economic growth are translated into suffering for those who live in the countryside. Many people are aware that there is a crisis of livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa, but the understanding of that crisis rarely transcends simple conceptions of food or environmental crisis or the inadequacy of states: the ubiquity of crisis is rarely comprehended. This book addresses the pressing question of rural poverty. It examines the diverse human implications of rural change, the various crises of rural livelihoods which arise from change, and the survival strategies of individuals and households. It describes the great processes of agrarian transformation which have fundamentally altered rural livelihoods in developing countries and identifies some of the dilemmas for public action which arise from agrarian transformation and the crises of rural livelihoods. The contributors draw upon a range of disciplinary approaches to the subject, including anthropology, sociology, economics, political economy, agricultural science, and development studies.
Download or read book West African Studies Settlement Market and Food Security written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the population of West Africa set to double by 2050, this book explores how agricultural production systems and policy will have to change to support this growth.
Download or read book Small Animals for Small Farms written by R. T. Wilson and published by Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations Regional Office for Asia and Pacific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small animals have a large potential and provide numerous opportunities to support smallholders farmers and their livelihoods. They provide meat at low cost for small-scale farmers and at affordable prices to consumers enabling access to animal protein even to the poorest members of a community. It is hoped that development workers, policy-makers and others involved recognise the opportunities and benefit that can derive from small animal enterprises and implement projects and development plans that foster such enterprises.
Download or read book Adapted Farming in West Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature written by Lee R. Martin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arrested Development written by Alessandro Iandolo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arrested Development examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. Buoyed by solid economic performance in the 1950s, the USSR opened itself up to the world and launched a series of programs aimed at supporting the search for economic development in newly independent countries in Africa and Asia. These countries, emerging from decades of colonial domination, looked at the USSR as an example to strengthen political and economic independence. Based on extensive research in Russian and West African archives, Alessandro Iandolo explores the ideas that guided Soviet engagement in West Africa, investigates the projects that the USSR sponsored "on the ground," and analyzes their implementation and legacy. The Soviet specialists who worked in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali collaborated with West African colleagues in drawing ambitious development plans, supervised the construction of new transport infrastructure, organized collective farms and fishing cooperatives, conducted geological surveys and mineral prospecting, set up banking systems, managed international trade, and staffed repairs workshops and ministerial bureaucracies alike. The exchanges and clashes born out of the encounter between Soviet and West African ideas, ambitions, and hopes about development reveal the USSR as a central actor in the history of economic development in the twentieth century.
