Economic and Social Transformation in Rural Kenya
Author : John Carlsen
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Pub
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1983-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780841997592
Author : John Carlsen
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Pub
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1983-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780841997592
Author : Joel Nyamao Bonuke
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Kenya
ISBN :
Author : Philip M. Mbithi
Publisher : Kampala : East African Literature Bureau
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Agriculture
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Textbook on the application of rural sociology in Kenya - analyses social changes in rural areas and the problems of rural development (rural migration, land tenure, farming systems, social structure of agriculture, rural planning, etc.), etc., and presents a case study of self help development projects. Diagrams, graphs, references and statistical tables.
Author : John Carlsen
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Monograph on rural employment potential in Kenya - examines agricultural development in four districts of nyanza and coast provinces, agricultural production and livestock development, agricultural incomes, nonfarm employment possibilities through development of rural industries and small scale industries, etc., Discusses results of agricultural sample surveys and considers social problems created by increasing landlessness. ILO mentioned. Graphs, photographs, references and statistical tables.
Author : Carolyn P. Edwards
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803248090
Ngecha is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving national economy, and they participated in the shift from an agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment. Completing this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study.
Author : Miroslava Prazak
Publisher :
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Education, Rural
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Author : John Carlsen
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
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Author : Barbara P. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000307557
Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class, ethnicity, and gender, this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help organizations play in the political economy of Kenya. Dr. Thomas looks at the competition for pow
Author : Jerop Komen
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9956552275
In this book, Leah Komen explores the impact of mobile telephony on the lives of people in rural Kenya. The book analyses the outcomes of complex intersections and interactions between mobile phones, individuals, and the broader society as distinct from the traditional cause-effect relationships in the discourse of development in the changing world. It subverts the traditional notion of synchronic development that ignores target populations' involvement in decision-making and sees development from the lens of developed economies where information and communication technologies like mobile telephones have originated. Komen's analysis advances a diachronic type of development that focuses on human technology's interrelationships instead of the synchronic model that privileges technology as engendering social transformations and development. The diachronic model is fundamentally Maendeleo, a Swahili term denoting process, participation, progress, and growth, and views social transformations and development as an interaction between mobile telephony users and their specific contexts. The book argues that the mobile phone has become an increasingly personalised device. It encourages a sense of community through the sharing of the device by multiple users, promotes co-presence and interpersonal communication, enhances kinship ties and social connectedness, and creates new ways of organising and conducting everyday socioeconomic activities. However, it also can disintegrate relationships and remodel some. This is a book about power negotiation, gender relations, cultural inclinations, and socio-economic dispositions within the context of mobile telephony's domestic use to facilitate social change and development.
Author : John G. McPeak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136650784
Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land mass, while a substantial proportion of national economies are based on pastoralist activities. Pastoralists use these drylands to generate income for themselves through the use of livestock and for the coffers of national trade and revenue agencies. They are frequently among the continent’s most contested and lawless regions, providing sanctuary to armed rebel groups and exposing residents to widespread insecurity and destructive violence. The continent’s millions of pastoralists thus inhabit some of Africa’s harshest and most remote, but also most ecologically, economically, and politically important regions. This study summarizes the findings of a multi-year interdisciplinary research project in pastoral areas of Kenya and Ethiopia. The cultures and ecology of these areas are described, with a particular focus on the myriad risks that confront people living in these drylands, and how these risks are often triggered by highly variable rainfall conditions. The authors examine the markets used by residents of these areas to sell livestock and livestock products and purchase consumer goods before turning to an analysis of evolving livelihood strategies. Furthermore, they focus on how well-being is conditioned upon access to livestock and access to the cash economy, gender patterns within households and the history of development activities in the area. The book concludes with a report on how these activities are assessed by people in the area and what activities they prioritize for the future. Policy in pastoral areas is often formulated on the basis of assumptions and stereotypes, without adequate empirical foundations. This book provides evidence on livelihood strategies being followed in pastoral areas, and investigates patterns in decision making and well being. It indicates the importance of livestock to the livelihoods of people in these areas, and identifies the critical and widespread importance of access to the cash economy, concluding that future development activities need to be built on the foundation of the livestock economy, instead of seeking to replace it.