Challenging
Rural Poverty. Experiences in institution-building and popular participation for
rural development in eastern Africa
Abstract
Kiros,
F. G. [Fassil G. Kiros] (ed.)
Challenging Rural Poverty. Experiences in institution-building and popular
participation for rural development in eastern Africa
OSSREA, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). 1985
Vi+234p. Trenton, N.J. (USA): Africa World Press.
1. OSSREA Congress, Alemaya (Ethiopia), June 1983
Compilation
of papers presented at the first OSSREA congress, which dealt with the problems
of rural development in general and on aspects of institution-building and
popular participation in particular in Eastern Africa. After an introductory
chapter that summarizes each subsequent paper, the volume is organized into two
main parts. The first part consists of papers that review the nature and causes
of rural poverty in Africa and the worsening conditions of the rural poor in the
region despite more than two decades of development efforts and also assess the
outcomes of several rural development experiences. The second part includes
selections that address themselves to the question of institution building,
especially centre-locality relations, the development. of appropriate forms of
rural development institutions, and grass-roots participation in the context of
rural development. The papers are titled: "The socioeconomic consequences
of famine", "Approaches to the problem of rural poverty in
Africa", "Women commodity producers and proletariats: The case of
African women", "Pitfalls in rural development: The case in
Tanzania", "The impact of population growth on food production in
Tanzania: Problems and prospects", "The pathology of institution
building -the Tanzanian. case", "Organization for development:
Tanzania's search for appropriate local level organizational forms", "Centre-periphery
linkages in the development process: An assessment of the Kenyan
experience", " Administration of cooperatives for rural development in
Kenya", "The integrated development approach within the context of
decentralization in Zambia", and "The Ethiopian experience in agrarian
reform".