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The book examines the attempt by the government of Burkina Faso to develop a land-use plan for its river basins covered by the Onchocerciasis ("river blindness") Control Programme. By controlling river blindness, foreign donors felt they could create vast new settlement opportunities. The program offered an opportunity to resettle one tenth of the population on more productive land and at the same time triple cotton production. The book also describes familiar themes of development as land tenure, technological change and government pricing. (DÜI-Sch)

Addressing broad issues of production, distribution, and consumption, the seven essays in this volume introduce readers to anthropological work in food policy. They show how information gathered from fieldwork-especially at the individual, family, and community levels-can help professionals plan and assess policies

1 Identifying opportunities / O. Richard Bundy III. - 2 Courting prospective partners / Lorna Michael Butler and Robert Mazur. - 3 Getting started / Dorothy Masinde, Lorna Michael Butler, and Robert Mazur. - 4 Building trust through accounting and accountability / Mark Westgate. - 5 Starting where the people are / Dorothy Masinde and Della E. McMillan. - 6 Leaving the door open to emerging needs and opportunities / Dorothy Masinde, Della E. McMillan, Max Rothschild, and Gail Nonnecke. - 7 Leaving the door open to new beneficiaries / Gail Nonnecke, Della E. McMillan, Donald Kugonza, and Dorothy Masinde. - 8 Tracking progress and planning for the future / Haroon Sseguya and Della E. McMillan. - 9 Capitalizing on impacts and CSRL's multiplier effects / David Acker, Henry Kizito Musoke, and Haroon Sseguya. - Epilogue : the partnership today and looking toward the future / Lorna Michael Butler and David Acker