This paper focuses on the subject of rural development itself is one fraught with many social and cultural ramifications; rural development often entails a specific division of labour between the sexes, a specific distribution ...

This report of the African Regional Conference on the Integrated Approach to Rural Development consists of a summary of consultant and other papers presented to it and discussions and interventions by participants observers ...

In this paper the author will deal with the major problem areas of rural development in Africa. As a point of departure, the general trends which are evident in Africa today, the objective-realities which have stimulated ...

More than one half of the working population of the world as a whole is engaged in rural activities. In the developing countries the proportion so engaged is as high as 80-90 per cent; in Africa it is well over 80 percent. ...

The inhabitants still living in the zones which will eventually be flooded, are to be transferred to (the San Pedro region. This explains why any enlightened Ivory Coast national appreciates, the link between two activities. ...