Research Catalog

Title

Farewell to farms : de-agrarianisation and employment in Africa / edited by Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Vali Jamal.

Publication

Aldershot : Ashgate, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Bryceson, Deborah Fahy.
• Jamal, Vali.

Description

iv, 265 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Is Africa's future necessarily rooted in peasant agriculture? This book challenges the view that Africa is the world's reserve for peasant farming, exploring how African rural populations are moving away from reliance on agriculture and Africa's place in the world division of labour.

Series Statement

African Studies Centre Research Series ; 10

Uniform Title

African Studies Centre research series 10.

Subject

• Economic development > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Rural development > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Africa > Rural conditions

Genre/Form

• graph.
• map.
• carte géographique.
• graphique.
• gráfico.
• mapa.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. De-agrarianisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: acknowledging the inevitable / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- 2. Coping with famine and poverty : the dynamics of non-agricultural rural employment in Darfur, Sudan / Hamid el Bashir Ibrahim -- 3. Farmers without land : the return of landlessness to rural Ethiopia / Yohannes Habtu -- 4. Not by farming alone : the role of non-farm incomes in rural Hausaland / Kate Meagher & Abdul Raufu Mustapha -- 5. Winners and losers : household fortunes in the urban peripheries of northern Hausaland / Mohammed A. Iliya & Ken Swindell -- 6. Economic activities of the poor in Accra / Meine Pieter van Dijk -- 7. Urban trajectories in rural livelihood strategies : household employment patterns in Kenya's Coast Province / Dick Foeken -- 8. The rural informal sector in Tanzania / Mboya S.D. Bagachwa -- 9. Non-farm activities and gender in Zimbabwe / Rudo B. Gaidzanwa -- 10. Rural diversification in Zimbabwe / Poul Ove Pedersen -- 11. Of livestock and deadstock : entrepreneurship and tradition on the South African highveld / Leslie Bank -- 12. Rural industries in Africa : hope and hype / Ian Livingstone -- 13. Labour diversification in rural Africa : implications for public works programmes / Tesfaye Teklu -- 14. De-agrarianisation : blessing or blight? / D.F. Bryceson.

ISBN

184014193X (pbk)

LCCN

gb^98000185^

OCLC

• 38113018
• SCSB-10830431

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library