Challenging rural poverty
By: Fassil G. Kiros, editor.
Contributors: Fassil G. Kiros.; Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern Africa. Congress
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Africa World Press of the Africa Research and Publications Project
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Trenton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Rural development -- Africa, Eastern -- Congresses; Rural development -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses; Institution building -- Africa, Eastern -- Congresses; Institution building -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Papers from the First Congress of the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern Africa held in Alemaya, Ethiopia, in June 1983.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Fassil G. Kiros; title: The socioeconomic consequences of famine / Mesfin Wolde-Mariam; title: Approaches to the problem of rural poverty in Africa / Jossy R. Bibangambah; title: Women commodity producers and proletariets ; the case of African women / Asseny Muro; title: Pitfalls in rural development : the case in Tanzania / Wilfred Mlay; title: The impact of population growth on food production in Tanzania / Mark R. Mujwahuzi; title: The pathology of institution building; title: the Tanzanian case / Dan M. Mudoola; title: Organization for development : Tanzania's search for appropriate local level organizational forms / G.R. Mutahaba; title: Centre-periphery linkages in the development process : an assessment of the Kenyan experience / W.O. Oyugi; title: Administration of cooperatives for rural development in Kenya / P.O. Alila; title: The integrated development approach within the context of decentralization in Zambia / M.C. Bwalya; title: The Ethiopian experience in agrarian reform / Dessalegn Rahmato; title: Opening address / Taye Gulillat.