Rural Households In Emerging Societies: Technology And Change In Sub-Saharan Africa

The constantly changing circumstances of rural life in sub-Saharan Africa have brought with them both successes and failures. The essays in this volume examine the various pressures and inducements to changing resource-use patterns faced by rural households, and explore the two-way causal relationship between technology and technological change on the one hand and other key elements of rural change - demographic, environmental, economic, social, and political - on the other. Contemporary approaches to the introduction of technical innovations are examined, and new approaches are proposed. Through case studies of particular communities, the wide-ranging impacts of past experiences are assessed, and the causes and consequences of indigenous initiatives are explored.

• | Author: Margaret Haswell, Diana Hunt
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 262 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367717069
• | ISBN-13: 9780367717063