Publications

This book, which is based on field research carried out between 1987 and 1990, explores government interventions in soil and water conservation (SWC) in the dryland region around the town of Kassala, in eastern Sudan. The interventions introduced from the early 1980s onwards...

This paper analyses a selection of the literature that has been published on the relationship between the development of food trade and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. The evolution of food marketing systems and the urbanization process are described in three phases: the...

For nearly a century, girls' initiation rites in Zambia have been banned by Roman Catholic missionaries, who considered the rites pagan and immoral. However, initiation rites persisted, secretly and in curtailed form. Today the church has changed its point of view and...

This paper, which is based on research carried out among 210 households in Nairobi (Kenya) in 1994, examines the role of urban agriculture in household food security among low-income urban households. It determines the different strategies the low-income population of Nairobi...

Chronic malnutrition has been consistently high in Kilifi District, Kenya, despite efforts to improve nutrition. This report presents an alternative approach to nutrition planning in Kilifi District, taking into account the multidimensional and multidisciplinary nature of...

Compte-rendu d'un séminaire sur les recherches pour le développement d'une agriculture durable au Bénin qui s'est tenu le 9 septembre 1993 à Amsterdam, cet ouvrage comprend les textes de contributions répartis en quatre chapitres: 1) Sur la dégradation physique...

Since the late 1980s evidence has been emerging in support of rumours of South African involvement in the southern African ivory trade from the mid-1960s onwards. There is some evidence that, from the early mid-1970s, elements of the South African government and its security...

The conduct of African politics seems to be governed by certain rules or patterns, including regional fragmentation, a continuing search for a maximum coalition combining all regional forces, and a prominent role for personality politics. At first sight, Malawi does not fit...

The few existing studies on the response of labour to the economic crisis and structural adjustment in African countries tend to focus on the (oppositional) relations between the State and central labour organizations. They largely ignore the response of workers and unions at...

This book focuses on the consciousness and action of female plantation workers in Cameroon. Two tea estates were selected for in-depth research. The main body of the work is comprised of two parts, both of which try to come to terms with the consciousness and action of...