Making a living : changing livelihoods in rural Africa

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Title:

Author:

Francis, Elizabeth, 1962-

ISBN:

9780415144957

9780415144964

Personal Author:

Francis, Elizabeth, 1962-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Physical Description:

x, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Map of Southern and Eastern Africa -- Pt. 1. Changing livelihoods in Eastern and Southern Africa -- 1. Making a living: commercial farming -- 2. Farming and rural livelihoods in South Africa: a case study -- 3. Making a living: migrancy and multiple livelihoods -- 4. Rural livelihoods and gender -- Pt. 2. Poverty and livelihoods in Western Kenya -- 5. Koguta and Western Kenya -- 6. Migration, accumulation and poverty -- 7. Poverty and livelihoods -- 8. Gender and livelihoods in Koguta -- App. A. Research methods used in the Koguta case study -- App. B. Luo segmentary lineages.

Subject Term:

Rural poor -- Africa, East.

Rural poor -- Africa, Southern.

Geographic Term:

Africa, East -- Rural conditions.

Africa, Southern -- Rural conditions.

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Summary

Livelihoods in rural Africa are changing in response to disappearing job prospects, falling agricultural output and collapsing infrastructure. This book explains why the responses to these challenges are so different in different parts of Africa. Making a Living uses case studies from commercial farming regions in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and from much poorer areas within eastern and southern Africa.to give a broad comparative study of rural livelihoods. These case studies reveal how household relations, poverty and gender all play a part in the changing political economy of rural Africa.