Transforming Southern Africa

Author : Richard A. Sikora,Eugene R. Terry,Paul L.G. Vlek,Joyce Chitja
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780429686634

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Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa by Richard A. Sikora,Eugene R. Terry,Paul L.G. Vlek,Joyce Chitja Pdf

This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing numerous challenges from diverse issues such as agricultural transformations, growing populations, urbanization and climate change. These challenges place great pressure on food security, agriculture, water availability and other natural resources, as well as impacting biodiversity. Drawing on case studies from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the chapters in this book consider these challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering key areas in constraints to production, the most important building blocks of good farming practices, and established and emerging technologies. This book will be a valuable support for informing new policies and processes aimed at improving food production and security and developing sustainable agriculture in Southern Africa. This informative volume will be key reading for those interested in agricultural science, African studies, rural studies, development studies and sustainability. It will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and agricultural practitioners. This title has been made available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CCBY-NC-ND) license and can be accessed here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429401701

Author : de Wet Chris de Wet
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781474400442

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Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa by de Wet Chris de Wet Pdf

This volume examines the ways in which changing political and economic processes impact upon patterns of population movement and settlement. It focuses on the southern African region as it has moved from the experiments of the early independence era, through civil war and refugee flight, into the current era characterised by globalization and the demise of apartheid. Focused case studies from across the region deal with specific aspects of these transformations and their policy implications.

Author : DIVISION ON GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT. UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE. STRATEGIES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9211130077

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Transforming Southern Africa by DIVISION ON GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT. UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE. STRATEGIES Pdf

This volume investigates the status of regional integration in Southern Africa. It discusses the critical challenges to be overcome and surveys the most interesting opportunities for achieving deeper regional integration.

Author : African Union Commission,OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264731295

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Africa's Development Dynamics 2019 Achieving Productive Transformation by African Union Commission,OECD Pdf

What are the major economic and social trends in Africa? What is Africa’s role in globalisation? This annual report presents an Africa open to the world and towards the future. Africa’s Development Dynamics uses the lessons learned in the five African regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop recommendations and share good practices. The report identifies innovative policies and offers practical policy recommendations, adapted to the specificities of African economies. Drawing on the most recent available statistics, this analysis of development dynamics aims to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national, and local. Every year this report will focus on one strategic theme. This 2019 edition explores policies for productive transformation. It proposes three main policy focus for transforming firms: providing business services to clusters of firms; developing regional production networks; and improving exporting firms’ ability to thrive in fast-changing markets. This volume feeds into a policy debate between African Union’s nations, citizens, entrepreneurs and researchers. It aims to be part of a new co-operation between countries and regions focused on mutual learning and the preservation of common goods. This report is the result of a partnership between the African Union Commission and the OECD Development Centre.

Author : Ann Willcox Seidman
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0865431329

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Transforming Southern African Agriculture by Ann Willcox Seidman Pdf

Author : Dickson A. Mungazi,L. K. Walker
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-18
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015041280473

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Educational Reform and the Transformation of Southern Africa by Dickson A. Mungazi,L. K. Walker Pdf

Defines transformation as basic change in the structure of national institutions to allow the individual a maximum opportunity to ensure his advancement, without socio-economic or political restrictions, and states that it cannot be initiated in Southern Africa without responding to the need for fundamental educational reform.

Author : Doctor Stefan Andreasson
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848136038

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Africa's Development Impasse by Doctor Stefan Andreasson Pdf

Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives. Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. This important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.

Author : Said Adejumobi,Cyril Obi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Regionalism
ISBN : 0367516985

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Developmental Regionalism and Economic Transformation in Southern Africa by Said Adejumobi,Cyril Obi Pdf

Interrogating the notion of developmental regionalism as applies to Southern Africa, this volume explores the policy options and interventions necessary to ensure a peaceful and stable regional development process. With a focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Author : African Union Commission,OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264606531

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Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs by African Union Commission,OECD Pdf

Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.

Author : Norman Etherington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317883128

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The Great Treks by Norman Etherington Pdf

The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the emergence of a new Zulu kingdom as a major military force in the early 19th century - offers an equally powerful symbol of the making of a nation. With their parallel visions of populations on the move to establish new states, these two stories became part of divided South Africa’s separate mythologies, treated as unconnected events taking place in separate universes. For the first time, in this groundbreaking book, accounts of both migrations are brought together and examined. In uniting these separate visions of African and Afrikaaner history, Norman Etherington provides a fascinating picture of a major turning point in South African history, and points the way for future work on the period.

Author : Thomas Walsh,Frank Kaufmann
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047541910

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Religion and Social Transformation in Southern Africa by Thomas Walsh,Frank Kaufmann Pdf

Religion has inspired those -- from Gandhi to Tutu -- who have sought to transform southern Africa. This volume presents voices from across the spectrum, passionately arguing that religion plays, and must continue to play, a vital role in shaping the political, social, and cultural reality of African people.

Author : Antonio Andreoni,Pamela Mondliwa,Simon Roberts,Fiona Tregenna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192894311

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Structural Transformation in South Africa by Antonio Andreoni,Pamela Mondliwa,Simon Roberts,Fiona Tregenna Pdf

Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, the book offers a new micro-meso level framework and evidence linking country-specific and global dynamics of change, with a focus on the current challenges and opportunities faced by middle-income countries.

Author : Ingemar Gustafsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business and education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033062584

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Schools and the Transformation of Work by Ingemar Gustafsson Pdf

Author : Tshilidzi Madzivhandila,Sepo Hachigonta,Joseph Francis,Joseph Kamuzhanje,Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole,Shirley DeWolf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030911317

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Development Practice in Eastern and Southern Africa by Tshilidzi Madzivhandila,Sepo Hachigonta,Joseph Francis,Joseph Kamuzhanje,Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole,Shirley DeWolf Pdf

This book is a rare collection of reflective and reflexive stories that reveal how seasoned academics, agents of grassroots social change, leaders and journalists transformed and shaped the development landscape in eastern and southern Africa. Whereas practical experiences are crucial assets and resources for shaping the academic environment and development practice landscape, most of the existing literature recommended as key learning materials in tertiary institutions is rarely in synch with the practical realities of development practice. The shared individual lived experiences from academic endeavours and fieldwork provide hands-on tools for students and emerging practitioners who might be involved in or are currently facilitating development work. The thrust of the book, therefore, is to demystify the day-to-day experiences of development practitioners while contributing to learning pathways or strategies for achieving viable solutions to the myriad of challenges, which grassroots communities face. The relevance of the book as a crucial resource for students pursuing development-oriented degree programmes in colleges and universities is obvious. Without any doubt, the compilation will be handy in the implementation of diverse development-oriented transformation agenda at academic, programming and policy levels.

Author : Godfrey Kanyenze,Herbert Jauch
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781779223081

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Towards Democratic Development States in Southern Africa by Godfrey Kanyenze,Herbert Jauch Pdf

The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years. However, this was not accompanied by structural transformation: poverty, food insecurity, unemployment and inequality persist. Structural transformation has not been - and indeed cannot be - delivered by market forces and neo-liberal economic policies; it requires a state committed to development, and to achieving it in a democratic way. To what extent do the countries of Southern Africa exhibit the characteristics of such a developmental state? What steps, if any, do they need to take in order to become one? The book answers the questions with respect to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Malawi. Godfrey Kanyenze and his colleagues have assembled a distinguished team of writers to take the temperature of the regional political economy, and chart a path for its future development.