Full Description
Thinking about development in Africa requires an appreciation of at least two sets of ideas. It is not sufficient to stress the ubiquity of failure, malnutrition, disease, predatory states and war; one also has to recognize that important aspects of the lives of millions of ordinary people have been transformed over the last five decades. All contributions in this book give insight into the heterogeneity of poverty and development processes in Sub-Saharan Africa, and confront the ideas, concepts and assumptions that lie behind pro-poor policies with their empirical findings.
Contents
Contents
Maps vii
Photographs vii
Figures viii
Boxes viii
Tables ix
1 Introduction: Inside poverty and development in Africa 1
Marcel Rutten & André Leliveld
2 Natural resource management and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa 25
Philip Woodhouse
3 Confusing counts, correlates and causes of poverty: A study of the PRSP in Lesotho 57
Deborah Johnston & John Sender
4 Why De Soto's ideas might triumph everywhere but in Kenya: A review of land-tenure policies among Maasai pastoralists 83
Marcel Rutten
5 Political instability, chronic poverty and food production systems in central Chad 119
Han van Dijk
6 Promises of economic development in the Great Limpopo, Southern Africa: Networks and partnerships in
transfrontier conservation 144
Marja Spierenburg, Conrad Steenkamp & Harry Wels
7 The social security function of land in Mbarara Distrcict in Uganda 169
André Leliveld
8 Intra-household differences in coping with illness in rural Ethiopia 201
Marleen Dekker
9 Urban agriculture and the urban poor: Does policy matter? 225
Dick Foeken
10 Livelihoods and income diversification among artisanal fishers on the Kenyan coast 255
Jan Hoorweg, Barasa Wangila & Allan Degen
11 The MDG on poverty and hunger: How reliable are the hunger estimates? 273
Wijnand Klaver & Maarten Nubé
List of authors 303
