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Author : John Carlsen
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780841997592
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Economic and Social Transformation in Rural Kenya written by John Carlsen and published by Holmes & Meier Pub. This book was released on 1983-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carolyn P. Edwards
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803248090
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Ngecha written by Carolyn P. Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ngecha is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving national economy, and they participated in the shift from an agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment. Completing this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study.
Author : John Carlsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Economic and Social Transformation in Rural Kenya written by John Carlsen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on rural employment potential in Kenya - examines agricultural development in four districts of nyanza and coast provinces, agricultural production and livestock development, agricultural incomes, nonfarm employment possibilities through development of rural industries and small scale industries, etc., Discusses results of agricultural sample surveys and considers social problems created by increasing landlessness. ILO mentioned. Graphs, photographs, references and statistical tables.
Author : Susan Whitin Almy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Rural Development in Meru, Kenya written by Susan Whitin Almy and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Robert Ochieng'
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966251527
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Historical Studies and Social Change in Western Kenya written by William Robert Ochieng' and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bethwell A. Ogot
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821410516
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Decolonization & Independence in Kenya, 1940-93 written by Bethwell A. Ogot and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sharply observed assessment of the history of the last half century by a distinguished group of historians of Kenya. At the same time the book is a courageous reflection in the dilemmas of African nationhood. Professor B. A. Ogot says: "The main purpose of the book is to show that decolonization does not only mean the transfer of alien power to sovereign nationhood; it must also entail the liberation of the worlds of spirit and culture, as well as economics and politics. "The book also raises a more fundamental question, that is: How much independence is available to any state, national economy or culture in today's world? It asks how far are Africa's miseries linked to the colonial past and to the process of decolonization? "In particular the book raises the basic question of how far Kenya is avoidably neo-colonial? And what does neo-colonial dependence mean? The book answers these questions by discussing the dynamic between the politics of decolonization, the social history of class formation and the economics of dependence. The book ends with a provocative epilogue discussing the transformation of the post-colonial state from a single-party to a multi-party system."
Author : World Institute for Development Economics Research
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198286376
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 3: Endemic Hunger written by World Institute for Development Economics Research and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1990 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a major report on world hunger instigated by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, this volume deals with possible solutions to the problem of regular outbreaks of famine in various parts of the world.
Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429809786
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Farewell to Farms written by Deborah Fahy Bryceson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume asks whether Africa’s future is necessarily rooted in peasant agriculture. The title of this book, Farewell to Farms, is deliberately intended to challenge the widely held view that Africa is the world’s reserve for peasant farming. African rural populations are themselves moving away from a reliance on agriculture. ‘De-agrarianisation’ takes the form of urban migration as well as the expansion of non-agricultural activities in rural areas providing new income sources, occupations and social identities for rural dwellers. Using recent continent-wide case study evidence, the authors assess the impact of de-agrarianisation on household welfare, business performance and national development. Their findings, which reveal new economic trajectories and social patterns emerging from a period of accelerated change, call into question assumptions about Africa’s future place in the world division of labour.
Author : Robert M. Maxon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810874695
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Kenya written by Robert M. Maxon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya has a long and complex history that began thousands of years ago. Indeed, some archaeologists contend that the country was the "cradle of mankind" or, at the very least, one of the places that was home to the earliest hominids. In later centuries, Kenya's strategic location astride the Indian Ocean and the East African littoral attracted numerous foreign peoples, some of the most significant of which have been the Americans, Arabs, British, Chinese, French, Germans, and Portuguese. Additionally, Africans from throughout the subcontinent have settled in Kenya to escape conflict or political persecution, while others wanted an opportunity to begin a new life. As a result of being a gateway to the world, the country traditionally has been one of the most important business, cultural, diplomatic, and political centers in Africa. Although it has maintained this reputation during the post-independence period, Kenya, like most African countries, has been plagued by an increasing array of complex economic, political, and social problems. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Kenya provides a starting point for those interested in any of the phases of Kenya's historical evolution. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Kenya.
Author : Margaret Haswell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323196
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Rural Households in Emerging Societies written by Margaret Haswell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John G. McPeak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136650792
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy written by John G. McPeak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land mass, while a substantial proportion of national economies are based on pastoralist activities. Pastoralists use these drylands to generate income for themselves through the use of livestock and for the coffers of national trade and revenue agencies. They are frequently among the continent’s most contested and lawless regions, providing sanctuary to armed rebel groups and exposing residents to widespread insecurity and destructive violence. The continent’s millions of pastoralists thus inhabit some of Africa’s harshest and most remote, but also most ecologically, economically, and politically important regions. This study summarizes the findings of a multi-year interdisciplinary research project in pastoral areas of Kenya and Ethiopia. The cultures and ecology of these areas are described, with a particular focus on the myriad risks that confront people living in these drylands, and how these risks are often triggered by highly variable rainfall conditions. The authors examine the markets used by residents of these areas to sell livestock and livestock products and purchase consumer goods before turning to an analysis of evolving livelihood strategies. Furthermore, they focus on how well-being is conditioned upon access to livestock and access to the cash economy, gender patterns within households and the history of development activities in the area. The book concludes with a report on how these activities are assessed by people in the area and what activities they prioritize for the future. Policy in pastoral areas is often formulated on the basis of assumptions and stereotypes, without adequate empirical foundations. This book provides evidence on livelihood strategies being followed in pastoral areas, and investigates patterns in decision making and well being. It indicates the importance of livestock to the livelihoods of people in these areas, and identifies the critical and widespread importance of access to the cash economy, concluding that future development activities need to be built on the foundation of the livestock economy, instead of seeking to replace it.
Author : Sara S. Berry
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299139344
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book No Condition Is Permanent written by Sara S. Berry and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry’s theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book explores the complex way African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labor, offering a comparative study of agrarian change in four rural economies in sub-Saharan Africa, including two that experienced long periods of expanding peasant production for export (southern Ghana and southwestern Nigeria), a settler economy (central Kenya), and a rural labor reserve (northeastern Zambia). The resources available to African farmers have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century. Berry asserts that the ways resources are acquired and used are shaped not only by the incorporation of a rural area into colonial (later national) and global political economies, but also by conflicts over culture, power, and property within and beyond rural communities. By tracing the various debates over rights to resources and their effects on agricultural production and farmers’ uses of income, Berry presents agrarian change as a series of on-going processes rather than a set of discrete “successes” and “failures.” No Condition Is Permanent enriches the discussion of agrarian development by showing how multidisciplinary studies of local agrarian history can constructively contribute to development policy. The book is a contribution both to African agrarian history and to debates over the role of agriculture in Africa’s recent economic crises.
Author : Charles Hornsby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755627741
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Kenya written by Charles Hornsby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya has survived five decades as a functioning nation-state, holding regular elections; its borders and political system intact and avoiding open war with its neighbours and military rule internally. It has been a favoured site for Western aid, trade, investment and tourism and has remained a close security partner for Western governments. However, Kenya's successive governments have failed to achieve adequate living conditions for most of its citizens; violence, corruption and tribalism have been ever-present, and its politics have failed to transcend its history. The decisions of the early years of independence and the acts of its leaders in the decades since have changed the country's path in unpredictable ways, but key themes of conflicts remain: over land, money, power, economic policy, national autonomy and the distribution of resources between classes and communities.While the country's political institutions have remained stable, the nation has changed, its population increasing nearly five-fold in five decades. But the economic and political elite's struggle for state resources and the exploitation of ethnicity for political purposes still threaten the country's existence. Today, Kenyans are arguing over many of the issues that divided them 50 years ago. The new constitution promulgated in 2010 provides an opportunity for national renewal, but it must confront a heavy legacy of history. This book reveals that history.
Author : William Robert Ochieng'
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966469632
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book An Economic History of Kenya written by William Robert Ochieng' and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Piet Konings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317848713
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The State and Rural Class Formation in Ghana written by Piet Konings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. Africanists are nowadays devoting increasing attention to the role of the state - both colonial and post-colonial - in the process of class formation in African societies. The present study of the role of the state in the process of rural class formation in Ghana can be viewed as both an expression of the current interest in, and an addition to the growing body of literature on, this subject.
Author : Hinderink
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317848519
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Commercialization And Government Policy In Africa written by Hinderink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Tjalling Dijkstra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429775695
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Trading the Fruits of the Land written by Tjalling Dijkstra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume contributes to the knowledge for the trade of vegetables, fruits and tubers (so-called horticultural commodities). As African policy makers try to keep pace with new developments in private food trade, they require knowledge of the structures of private trade systems and the factors that govern their long-term development. The study analyses the structure and development of horticultural marketing channels in Kenya. It is based primarily on surveys of some 500 farmers in four districts and 750 horticultural traders in 18 market places. Commercial horticultural farmers, domestic traders, export traders, agents, facilitators, marketing cooperatives and processors are all reviewed. The study devotes special attention to the efficiency of collecting wholesalers, and to the development of rural assembly markets. It develops a model which can elucidate vertical differentiation processes in the Kenyan horticultural channels. The analyses show that marketing channel theory can be of great relevance to the developing world. The proposed vertical differentiation model can aid in predicting future changes in horticultural marketing systems, in Kenya as well as in other African countries.
