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This book includes the papers presented at a conference held in Copenhagen from 21st to 23rd February, 1991. The first day of the conference was designed to give a broad overview of the political situation and of the prospects of future development in post-apartheid South Africa. Two papers described the domestic and foreign forces that influence developments in Southern Africa, one paper explained the policy of the ANC. The second and third days of the conference treated in depth four topics crucial to the situation in South Africa and to its future development. The topics were: land shortage and slums, youth and educational problems, South Africa's economic problems and prospects and the country's international relations. (DÜI-Hff)

The study deals with the social and economic development of certain of the non-agricultural rural groups of coastal Orissa in the last few decades. An investigation of how these groups have been affected by the capitalist penetration of the Indian rural economy is aimed at. The focus is on how, in the complex netwok of social amd economic relations of the village, the positions of these groups have been altered. The study of non-agrarian groups is based on a general outline of the most important social relations at the village level, emphasising the positions of the most powerful agrarian groups and of the higher castes; most of the important social relations of the non-agricultural groups revolve around these two groups. Within this context the study concentrates on the Viswakarma caste of coastal Orissa. Traditionally, the Viswakarmas are village blacksmiths and carpenters. - The report is one result of a research project carried out by the author at Centre for Development Research 1988-1992: "Artisans in Rural India: Changes in Employment Structure and Income Earning Opportunities. A case study from rural Orissa". (Publication)

This article examines how changing gender relations of production affect participation in women's organizations and female-support networks among the Kipsigis in Mosop Location, Kericho District, Kenya. The article begins with a review of the literature on women's contemporary organizations in Kenya. After a background section on the survey area and the Kipsigis people the article continues with an outline of major changes in the gender relations of production followed by a discussion of the impact of these changes on selected types of women's organizations. In the final part of the article, the role of new women's groups versus indigenous self-help groups are discussed and major trends and changes in Kipsigis women's participation in female organizations are outlined

This article examines the role of and policies towards the informal sector in Kenya and presents the nature and dynamics of the rural informal sector. The rural nonfarm sector is approached from two angles: first, a geographical point of departure is taken, ie. analyzing the spatial organization of nonfarm enterprises; second, portraits of the enterprises and their owners, as individual entities and tradewise, are sketched. The author carried out a field survey in the middle of 1988 at four locations in three districts, namely Kericho, Kakamega and Kisii Districts

This is an account of the development of agricultural intensification and commodity production among the peasantry in Hanang District, Arusha Region, northern Tanzania. One of the main themes is concerned with the changes in the conditions of production and exchange which took place in the period during and after villagization 1974-79 and during the subsequent economic crisis from 1980 to 1985

This report is the result of a research project undertaken by the Centre for Development Research in collaboration with the Cooperative and Rural Development Bank, formerly Tanzania Rural Development Bank. It is a continuation of the study of peasant agriculture in Iringa region, which took place from 1979 to 1982. The present report builds upon and extends the results from the former project

The present study is built on the hypothesis that migration of the heads of household has more far-reaching implications than the migration of other family members, mainly due to the heads' obligation to cater for the rural family and their need to reproduce the households' right to access to land. The study focuses on the migration pattern which developed in and around six villages in the Musami ward, Murewa-Kubatana district in Mashonaland East province. The choice of village has been guided by the abundant material on former migration in this area

Die Autorin untersucht das Alltagsleben in einem Slumdistrikt Bangkoks auf die Frage hin, ob sich in Slumgebieten eine spezifische Kultur entwickeln kann bzw. entwickelt hat. Sie setzt die vorgefundene Alltagskultur in Beziehung zum Theravada Buddhismus und versucht, der Kultur einen Stellenwert im Rahmen von "Arbeitskultur" oder aber einer "Gegenkultur" zuzumessen. Außerdem diskutiert die Autorin die Rolle der Geschlechter innerhalb der Slumkultur. (DÜI-Xyl)

It is often claimed that the choice of a "state-farm line" was forced upon the Mozambican Government by the disruption of production occurring in the wake of the Portuguese exodus. While there is some truth in this, this paper will seek to show that the decision also rested on certain assumptions about what crops should be given priority and upon a particularly oversimplified conception of agricultural "modernization". The paper will also consider briefly some of the effects of centralized physical planning in exacerbating the problems