Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Fassil G. Kiros
  • The socioeconomic consequences of famine / Mesfin Wolde-Mariam
  • Approaches to the problem of rural poverty in Africa / Jossy R. Bibangambah
  • Women commodity producers and proletariets ; the case of African women / Asseny Muro
  • Pitfalls in rural development : the case in Tanzania / Wilfred Mlay
  • The impact of population growth on food production in Tanzania / Mark R. Mujwahuzi
  • The pathology of institution building--the Tanzanian case / Dan M. Mudoola
  • Organization for development : Tanzania's search for appropriate local level organizational forms / G.R. Mutahaba
  • Centre-periphery linkages in the development process : an assessment of the Kenyan experience / W.O. Oyugi
  • Administration of cooperatives for rural development in Kenya / P.O. Alila
  • The integrated development approach within the context of decentralization in Zambia / M.C. Bwalya
  • The Ethiopian experience in agrarian reform / Dessalegn Rahmato
  • Opening address / Taye Gulillat.