Farewell To Farms

Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson,Vali Jamal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429809781

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First published in 1997, this volume asks whether Africa’s future is necessarily rooted in peasant agriculture. The title of this book, Farewell to Farms, is deliberately intended to challenge the widely held view that Africa is the world’s reserve for peasant farming. African rural populations are themselves moving away from a reliance on agriculture. ‘De-agrarianisation’ takes the form of urban migration as well as the expansion of non-agricultural activities in rural areas providing new income sources, occupations and social identities for rural dwellers. Using recent continent-wide case study evidence, the authors assess the impact of de-agrarianisation on household welfare, business performance and national development. Their findings, which reveal new economic trajectories and social patterns emerging from a period of accelerated change, call into question assumptions about Africa’s future place in the world division of labour.

Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138335533

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Farewell to Farms by Deborah Fahy Bryceson Pdf

First published in 1997, this volume asks whether Africa's future is necessarily rooted in peasant agriculture. The title of this book, Farewell to Farms, is deliberately intended to challenge the widely held view that Africa is the world's reserve for peasant farming. African rural populations are themselves moving away from a reliance on agriculture. 'De-agrarianisation' takes the form of urban migration as well as the expansion of non-agricultural activities in rural areas providing new income sources, occupations and social identities for rural dwellers. Using recent continent-wide case study evidence, the authors assess the impact of de-agrarianisation on household welfare, business performance and national development. Their findings, which reveal new economic trajectories and social patterns emerging from a period of accelerated change, call into question assumptions about Africa's future place in the world division of labour.

Author : Frank O'Connell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Farm life
ISBN : CORNELL:31924051782088

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Farewell to the Farm by Frank O'Connell Pdf

Author : Robert Barbour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Farm life
ISBN : 1858210240

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Farewell to Farming by Robert Barbour Pdf

Author : Dzodzi Tsikata
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047406556

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Living in the Shadow of the Large Dams by Dzodzi Tsikata Pdf

This book on dam-affected communities of the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the question of long term environmental and socio-economic impacts and responses of two often neglected groups of communities- the downstream and lakeside communities.

Author : Jonathan Rigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317877677

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More than the Soil by Jonathan Rigg Pdf

More than the Soil focuses on the social, cultural, economic and technological processes that have transformed rural areas of Southeast Asia. The underlying premise is that rural lives and livelihoods in this region have undergone fundamental change. No longer can we assume that rural livelihoods are founded on agriculture; nor can we assume that people envisage their futures in terms of farming. The inter-penetration of the rural and urban, and the degree to which rural people migrate between rural and urban areas, and shift from agriculture to non-agriculture, raises fundamental questions about how we conceptualise the rural Southeast Asia and the households to be found there.

Author : Charles Pappas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781630762407

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Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords by Charles Pappas Pdf

Every time you chew a stick of Juicy Fruit, eat a hamburger, slip on a nylon, plug your phone into a wall socket, flick on a TV, withdraw money from an ATM, lick an ice-cream cone, switch on a computer, ride an escalator, play a DVR, watch a movie about dinosaurs, or pop a tranquilizer, you’re doing something that originated at a world’s fair or trade expo. In fact, each new technology and every novel product that rocked America and rolled the world, from the Colt revolver and the Corvette to fax machines and flush toilets, started at trade fairs, a $100 billion industry that includes world expos, trade shows, and state fairs. More than just promoting material things, however, trade fairs popularized and evangelized every social movement and cultural concept, too, including Manifest Destiny, the closing of the frontier, Nudism, Nazism, Fascism, eugenics, female suffrage, temperance, and technocracy. While there have been notable works on world’s fairs by Robert Rydell, Erik Larsen, Erik Mattie, and others, they only capture a fragment of the whole mosaic of these shows—a mosaic that makes the glitziest Las Vegas spectacle look like an Amish barn-raising. This amusing book covers, for example, the World’s Fair that featured a nudist colony (1935); Salvador Dali’s half-naked lobster women, their virtue barely secured by well-placed crustaceans (1939); a model of the Liberty Bell made of Oranges (1893); one of Thomas Edison’s lesser-known inventions, the prefabricated concrete home (1907); and the Bayer Company’s experiment with selling heroin. More memorable and culturally iconic debuts discussed here include electricity, radios, the Volkswagen and the Corvette, television, the X-ray machine, air conditioning, and even nylon stockings. Dozens of short, illustrated chapters take the reader through over 150 years of world and trade fairs, from the vibrators displayed by sexual health advocates at the 1900 World’s Fair to the first true IMAX film at Expo ’70 in Japan.

Author : Cecilia Tacoli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317762676

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The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages by Cecilia Tacoli Pdf

With accelerating urbanization and growing inter-dependence of rural and urban dwellers on the markets and resources they each offer, rural urban linkages have become a very important focus in recent years for research and policy relating to local and national economic development, poverty reduction and governance. The emergence of new livelihoods based on diversified income sources and mobility reflects profound social, cultural and economic transformations, and new forms of resource allocation and use. This volume collects the key contributions in the field, covering the conceptual background, the key issues and the current debates, locating different approaches in their wider intellectual and historical contexts. It also includes important recent empirical work from all the relevant geographical regions that that will be the basis for future thinking. Fifteen papers are clearly organized around the principal themes and accompanied by a valuable editorial introduction clearly setting out the issues, the arguments and the evidence. Suggestions for further reading and additional information sources are also included. Published with IIED.

Author : Elke Grawert
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3631574673

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Departures from Post-colonial Authoritarianism by Elke Grawert Pdf

This study sends the reader on an exciting journey into social and political life in Africa. It gives space to the voices of Tanzanian villagers, rural associations, branches of political parties and local government officers and their views of socio-economic and political change during the 1990s. This authentic picture is combined with a thorough sociological and political economy analysis showing the dynamics in the relations between state components and social forces in the context of neo-liberal globalization. The book is not only attractive as a country case study. It contains a deep analysis of the paradigmatic shift of African political systems from post-colonial rule to governance in response to neo-liberalism and provides new insights in processes of political transformation.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Livestock
ISBN : 0958220387

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Valediction by John Foster Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89089942106

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : S. P. Rosenbaum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501743139

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A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson by S. P. Rosenbaum Pdf

A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson is the third volume in the distinguished series "Cornell Concordances." Like the others, it was programmed on an IBM 704 electronic computer and provides an alphabetical list of all significant words—each word given in context. In order to provide variants, it was based on Thomas H. Johnson's three-volume edition of all the known texts of Emily Dickinson's poems. Included are an analytical preface by the editor and an index of words in the order of frequency.

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015062428514

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Graham Webb
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476639260

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Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959 by Graham Webb Pdf

Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a "filler" in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015050663205

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The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary by Anonim Pdf