Making a Living: Changing Livelihoods in Rural Africa

by Francis,Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780415144957
• ISBN10: 0415144957
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134686216
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-15
• Publisher: Routledge
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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 Livinguses 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.

Table of Contents

List of tables and illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Map of Southern and Eastern Africa	xii
Introduction	1	(8)
PART 1 Changing livelihoods in Eastern and Southern Africa	9	(90)
Making a living: commercial farming	11	(22)
Farming and rural livelihoods in South Africa: a case study	33	(22)
Making a living: migrancy and multiple livelihoods	55	(21)
Rural livelihoods and gender	76	(23)
PART 2 Poverty and livelihoods in Western Kenya	99	(82)
Koguta and Western Kenya	101	(24)
Migration, accumulation and poverty	125	(18)
Poverty and livelihoods	143	(14)
Gender and livelihoods in Koguta	157	(24)
Conclusion	181	(4)
Appendix A: Research methods used in the Koguta case study	185	(5)
Appendix B: Luo segmentary lineages	190	(2)
Bibliography	192	(15)
Index	207