Rural Households in Emerging Societies

Technology and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Margaret Haswell (Editor), Diana Hunt (Editor)

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Hardcover | 18 October 1991 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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'...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

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