This title was first published in 2001: Does the non-farm sector
offer new hope for rural Africa? In the face of economic crisis and
restructuring across Africa, small-scale enterprise has come to
play a central role in rural livelihood and accumulation
strategies. This apparent dynamism has attracted favourable
attention from development thinkers and policy-makers, who have
identified non-farm enterprise as a new low-cost agent of rural
development. The research in this book challenges the growing
consensus on the developmental potential of the non-farm sector. On
the basis of recent fieldwork, the author argues that the prospects
for non-farm led growth have been seriously undermined by the
crippling pressures of structural adjustment, agricultural
instability and rural as well as interregional inequality. Detailed
village case-studies from the populous and highly commercialized
grain surplus region of the Nigerian savanna leads the reader to
investigate the link between local economic and social realities,
and the wider regional, national and global processes that form the
development of the non-farm sector in Africa. Far from offering a
bargain solution, the author demonstrates that significant
investment in agriculture and entrepreneurial development will be
needed to create an enabling environment for non-farm growth.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Revivals |
Release date: |
September 2017 |
First published: |
2001 |
Authors: |
Kate Meagher
|
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
196 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-79306-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
General
|
LSN: |
0-415-79306-8 |
Barcode: |
9780415793063 |
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