Publications

Two-thirds of the area of Nyandarua (Central Province, Kenya) is suited for horticulture and the district's farmers have developed a flourishing horticultural industry. In 1990, a farm survey was carried out among 240 rural households in eight sublocations to study the...

This article highlights the fallacy of the market as an abstract idea, arguing that any market is created in a particular form through social behaviour. It focuses on a specific group of people, Waluguru traders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, originating from Mgeta, about 200...

This article describes social and economic change over the last thirty years in the Mgeta division of Morogoro rural district in Tanzania's Uluguru mountains. Over this period, Mgeta has become more and more involved in wider networks of economic exchange. The area faces...

This paper examines how the labour migration of Swazi homestead members to South Africa affects the homestead as a solidarity group. After an introduction in which he discusses the conditions which make a group a solidarity group and their applicability to the Swazi homestead...

Much has been written on African peasantries in general and on 'peasant wars' in Africa in particular, and yet there is a remarkable gap in the existing literature. On the one hand, literature on peasant wars in general tends to ignore Africa South of the Sahara; on...

In dit boek wordt een beschrijving gegeven van het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van een moderne koloniale en post-koloniale staat in Guiné-Bissau. De auteur analyseert de wijze waarop die staat intervenieert in plattelandsgemeenschappen met het doel deze te integreren in...

This study is concerned with the laws regulating compensation for extramarital pregnancy and maintenance of extramarital children in Botswana. More specifically, it aims to comprehend the reasons for the increase in extramarital reproduction and its seeming tolerance by the...

This is Part 4/5 of a series concerned with seasonality in the coastal lowlands of Kenya. Household surveys were carried out in six locations in Kwale and Kilifi Districts in 1985-1987. The present report deals with food consumption and the nutritional condition of the study...

Abstr.: Over the past 15 years the Kenyan government has pursued a policy to stimulate the participation of women in the process of development. Women's groups have been the main focus of government policies in this regard. This paper presents the results of research,...

The objectives of this study on dairy development in Kilifi District, Kenya, are, first, to assess the importance of - small-scale - intensive dairy farming as promoted by the Ministry of Livestock through the National Dairy Development Programme (DDP) compared with other...

Ce rapport est le résultat d'une recherche sur le secteur informel de Malanville en République du Bénin. La recherche a eu lieu d'octobre 1990 jusqu'à février 1991 dont trois mois sur le terrain. Les auteurs ont examiné le fonctionnement des groupements déjà...

Ce rapport est le résultat d'un travail de recherche sur le secteur informel dans le cadre du Programme d'appui au développement de la circonscription de Kandi (Radec-Kandi) dans la République du Bénin. Les commerçants ne sont pas compris dans ce secteur, alors que...

This paper discusses the concept of social security and criticizes the ILO definition of the concept as too limited to analyse non-Western social security systems. It develops an alternative definition which includes, firstly, the protection by society of individuals or...