Research Catalog

Title

Proceedings of the West Africa Conference, April 11-15, 1976, Ramada Inn, Tucson, Arizona / edited for publication by Patricia Paylore and Richard A. Haney.

Author

West Africa Conference (1976 : Tucson, Ariz.)

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona, 1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Paylore, Patricia.
• Haney, Richard A.
• University of Arizona.
• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Ghana)

Description

ii leaves, 315 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.

Subjects

• Africa, West > Politics and government > Congresses
• Africa, West > Social conditions > Congresses
• Africa, West > Economic conditions > Congresses

Note

• "Co-sponsored by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Ghana and the University of Arizona."
• Brochure in pocket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Overview of West Africa: Physical overview / by R.J. Harrison-Church. West Africa : an historical overview / by Boniface I. Obichere. West Africa in political perspective / by Elliott P. Skinner. Overview of economic development problems of West Africa / by Salfo Albert Balima. Opportunity for self-reliance : an overview of the Sahel development potential / presented by David Shear -- The Sahel : pastoral nomads and a fragile ecology: Sahelian pastoral adaptive strategies before and after drought / by Michael M. Horowitz. Coping with drought in Africa / Wolf Roder. The Sahelian economics / by Elliot Berg. Proposal for change in the Sahel / by M.G. Fasla -- West Africa : the migration of human populations : urbanization and rural development: Urbanization in West Africa / by D. Robert Altschul. Health care in Africa / by Pascal James Imperato. Food, farming, and the future / by Donald E. Vermeer. The effects of twentieth century social change, especially of migration, on women of West Africa / by Niara Sudarkasa -- The Volta River Basin : a case study of the impact of development: The Volta River Project / by David Brokensha. The impact of the Volta River Project on the life style and population distribution in the Volta River Basin / by George Benneh and Robert Dodoo. Economic impact of the Volta River Project / by Assibi O. Abudu. Volta River Basin projects : impact on public health / by James P. Ganley -- Integrated rural development: Integrated rural development / by John L. Fischer. Nutrition and integrated rural development / by Marcia McCrary. Administrative problems and integrated rural development, or, Can a lion's den be made into a happy zoo? / by W.J. Siffin. Ethnoscience in rural development / by Dennis M. Warren -- Concerns in providing effective technical assistance in developing countries: Institutional arrangements among cooperating institutions / Joan Coe. Economics and the economist in the developing world / Roger Fox. Social and cultural constraints / Richard N. Henderson -- The role of U.S. universities in West African development and the problems related to the university's capability to fulfill that role: A view of a U.S. university administrator / Gerald Stairs. A view of a developing country scientist / Robert Dodoo, Jr. The view of the African Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development / by David Shear. The view of a food and agriculture organization administrator / by Neal R. Carpenter. The view of a multinational company administrator / by A.T. Anderson.

Call Number

Sc+ F 98-1068

OCLC

3148483

Conference

West Africa Conference (1976 : Tucson, Ariz.)

Title

Proceedings of the West Africa Conference, April 11-15, 1976, Ramada Inn, Tucson, Arizona / edited for publication by Patricia Paylore and Richard A. Haney.

Imprint

Tucson : University of Arizona, 1976.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Paylore, Patricia.

Haney, Richard A.

University of Arizona.

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Ghana)

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 98-1068