The purpose of this edition is to suggest that, on the basis of empirical evidence for the period 1979-1989, there is a compelling case for serious reflection over the 'performance' of the decade rather than celebration ...

Many countries are today confronted with the challenging tasks of improving the level of living and the productive capacities of their people especially in the spheres of agriculture and food production. While governments ...

Africa has traditionally been an agricultural continent with most of its economic activities concentrated in farm households located in rural communities which, although are largely self-sufficient, are nonetheless ...

It is now generally accepted that in most African countries, the magnitude and extent of economic growth and development is critically determined by enhanced productivity and expanded production of food crops. The continent ...

ECA publishes the bi-yearly journal, Rural Progress, to facilitate the dissemination of information and the exchange of experience in integrated rural development in Africa with a view to creating a more informed interest ...

The objective of this paper can be described as a reasonable attempt to summarise a very large problem. They could also be rewritten to state explicitly rather than implicitly what this problem is. If we are to discuss the ...

The solutions to cope with wood energy production are neither simple nor cheap Rather, a combination of linked policies, such as hydraulic energy production/distribution, forest management, solar and wind energy gas and ...