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Inducing food insecurity : perspectives on food policies in Eastern and Southern Africa
No full textThe scope and context of food security is complex, and it involves macro- and micro-policy perspectives ranging from pricing, distribution, and technology to consumption patterns and food habits. This borevisits the factors which contributed to the decline in food production in eastern and southern Africa and traces them to the food policies of a given country or countries. It also includes chapters dealing with the dynamics of rural or urban food systems, pastoral production, indigenous knowledge and the consequences of technological intervention
Namibia and external resources : the case of Swedish development assistance
No full textWhat is the role of international development assistance in a newly independent country such as Namibia? The two studies in this report give some inputs to the discussion on the benefits and problems of aid. One focuses on macro-economics, resource distribution and effects of international development assistance in general. The other is an analysis of the impact of Swedish development assistance
Urban environmental health and hygiene in sub-Saharan Africa
No full textA study of environmental hygiene problems in urban low-income areas in Africa. Urban shantytowns with extreme crowding, poor housing and unsanitary environmental conditions are growing problems. The authors mean that development assistance organizations must pay attention to these problems in urban areas, where in a few decades about half of the people in most developing areas will reside
Short-cut to decay : the case of the Sudan
No full textThe Sudan can demonstrate that while there is no short-cut to progress there is one to decay and misery. After eleven years of peace, the second civil war has now lasted for more than ten years. Regional, ethnic and religious conflicts are intensifying all over the country. The economy is in shambles while a small élite is enriching itself.Contents: Recycling the past in the Sudan - An overview of political decay / Sharif Harir – The collapse of the state in southern Sudan after the Addis Ababa agreement - A study of internal causes and the role of the NGOs / Terje Tvedt – Political cleavages within the southern Sudan - An empirical analysis of the re-division debate / Raphael K. Badal – Destruction and reconstruction in the economy of the southern Sudan / Douglas H. Johnson -- “Arab belt” versus “African belt” - Ethno-political conflict in Dar Fur and the regional cultural factors / Sharif Harir – Tribal militias - The genesis of national disintegration / M.A. Mohamed Salih and Sharif Harir – Alternative economic strategies for the Sudan / Karl Wohlmuth – Constitutional framework for peace and stability / Peter Woodward -- A Chronology of the Sudan 1972-1992 / Sharif Harir, Kjell Hødnebø and Terje Tvedt </p
Economic analysis of drylands farming in Nigeria with special reference to the accelerated wheat production programme in Kano and Kaduna states
No full textSocial change and economic reform in Africa
No full textThe African-based authors of this volume provide a series of objective, detailed, factually up-to-date, and theoretically informed studies of reent developments in agriculture, the informal sector, the social sector and 'civil society' in Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. They analyse the main trends and forces operating in these fields and consider the economic reform programme's impact against this background.Contents: Introduction: Economic Reform and Social Change in Africa / Peter Gibbon -- State-Civil Institutions Relations in Kenya in the 1980s / Mutahi G. Ngunyi and Kamau Gathiaka -- The social-Political Context of the Growth of Non-Governmental Organisations in Kenya / Karuti Kanyinga -- Agricultural Decline, Politics and Structural Adjustment in Kenya / G. K. Ikaira, M. A. Jama and J. O. Amadi -- Urban Women Workers in the Informal Sector and Economic Change in Kenya in the 1980s / Agnes Musyoki and John Aluko Orodho -- Towards a Political Economy of Adjustment in a Labour Reserve Economy: The Case of Lesotho / Michael Neocomos -- Structural Adjustment and Non-Governmental Organisations In Tanzania: A Case Study / Andrew S. Z. Kiondo -- Structural Adjustment Policies and Education in Tanzania / Joe L. P Lugalla -- Forms of Accumulation, Agriculture and Structural Adjustment in Tanzania / C. S. L. Chachage -- Structural Adjustment, State and Organised Labour in Zimbabwe / Lloyd M. Sachikonye -- Women Informal Sector Workers and Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe / V. Brand, R. Mupedziswa and P. Gumbo -- Health and Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe / Frances Chinemana and David Sanders</p
Southern Africa after apartheid : regional integration and external resources
No full textThis anthology with Southern African and Nordic scholars contains a wide-ranging, critical and analytical discussion of some of the crucial issues related to the future of Southern Africa
