Publications

This review of Dutch research on environmental issues in sub-Saharan Africa is based on an inventory of some 80 research programmes carried out in the Netherlands during the 1990s. An analysis of the research themes indicates that most of the research concentrates on the...

Rural household travel patterns have been largely ignored in African transport studies. Over the past ten years, however, village-level surveys have been undertaken which reveal the preeminence of female porterage in rural transport activities. Donor agencies are now...

This paper examines the interface between work conditions of rural women in Africa and Western perceptions and interventions to address them. From a schematic review of Western attitudes towards African rural women's work, the paper moves on to consider donor...

This bibliography concerns the existing scientific literature on different aspects of rural employment. It contains 301 references, listed in alphabetical order by author. The references are either of a general nature or concern the situation in the countries of sub-Saharan...

Sub-Saharan Africa is steadily becoming less rural in character. For decades development thinking has prescribed industrialization as the virtuous path leading away from economic dependence on agriculture. The present paper rejects the view that rural or even national...

Au cours des années 1980, la foresterie rurale a été introduite au Sénégal sous forme de divers projets. Après une introduction qui traite des problèmes d'environnement, de la politique forestière et de la participation villageoise à la foresterie du pays, ce livre...