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International Agricultural Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 636

International Agricultural Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-11-20
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Other topics include market failures, food insecurity, rural poverty, environmental degradation, income and asset inequality, fiscally sustainable organizations, the changing roles of the public and private sector in research, input delivery systems, marketing and low rates of agricultural growth in much of sub-Saharan Africa.

Democracy and Development in Mali
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Democracy and Development in Mali

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: MSU Press

Mali, a country rich with history and culture, but one of the poorest in the world, emerged in the 1990s as one of Africa's most vibrant democracies. Strengthened by bold political and economic reforms at home, Mali has emerged as a leader in African peace keeping efforts. How has such a transition taken place? How have these changes built on Mali's rich heritage? These are the questions that the contributors to this volume have addressed. During the past twenty-five years, the scholarly research and applied development work of Michigan State University faculty and students in Mali represents the most significant combined, long-term, and continuing contribution of any group of university fac...

Agricultural Development in the Third World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

Agricultural Development in the Third World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Readings on the economic policy of agricultural development in developing countries - analyses agricultural development models (incl. Community development and rural development), food policies, nutrition, price policies, trade, etc.; studies role of land reform, rural area labour markets and employment policies, agricultural credit, agricultural technology and social implications of technological change; discusses case studies of Africa and China. Graphs and references.

Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation

Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation - A View From Africa

2001 Race Odyssey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

2001 Race Odyssey

This seventeen-essay volume is a comprehensive assessment of the complex relationships of racism, sexism, and classism both within and between the Pan-African community and the larger American society. It offers new twenty-first-century approaches for cooperatively and simultaneously addressing these significant social problems.

Assault on Rural Poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Assault on Rural Poverty

In Assault on Rural Poverty, Haileleul Getahun analyzes the various causes of rural poverty and constraints impeding increased agricultural productivity during the last four decades in Ethiopia, under three different regimes. Getahun examines the feudalistic system under Emperor Haile Selassie, the command economic system of the military junta led by Mengistu Haile Mariam, and the current capitalist system of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia led by Meles Zenawi. Getahun discusses the lessons drawn from Ethiopian experience during these three regimes, as well as from other African and Asian countries. These provide the basis for recommending a small farmer-led agricultural and rural developme...

Reasserting the Rural Development Agenda
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

Reasserting the Rural Development Agenda

Presents a reinvigorated agenda on agricultural and rural development in Asia both for research and policy discussions in the coming decades.

Food for All in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Food for All in Africa

Africa requires a new agricultural transformation that is appropriate for Africa, that recognizes the continent's diverse environments and climates, and that takes into account its histories and cultures while benefiting rural smallholder farmers and their families. In this boldly optimistic book, Sir Gordon Conway, Ousmane Badiane, and Katrin Glatzel describe the key challenges faced by Africa's smallholder farmers and present the concepts and practices of Sustainable Intensification (SI) as opportunities to sustainably transform Africa's agriculture sector and the livelihoods of millions of smallholders. The way forward, they write, will be an agriculture sector deeply rooted within SI: pr...

The Fate of Africa's Democratic Experiments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

The Fate of Africa's Democratic Experiments

Does democracy have a future in Africa?

Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and Imperial Security in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and Imperial Security in Africa

Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Imperial Security in Africa will appeal to professionals and students of imperial and world history, international security and conflict resolution, development, globalization, and gender studies. The author argues that terrorism, piracy, acts of sabotage, and austerity budget mass protests will continue in Africa, Asia and the West until ordinary people around the world have positive answers to the Primordial Question: Will my family eat today and sleep peacefully through the night?