Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Margaret Haswell ,  Diana Hunt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.675kg
ISBN:  

9780854967308

ISBN 10:   0854967303
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   18 October 1991
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

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

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

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions