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Rural communities in transition: a study of the socio-economic and agricultural implications of agricultural betterment and development / Development Studies Working Paper, no. 16

This comparative study, undertaken in the anthropological tradition of long-term field research, highlights the impact of agricultural "betterment" schemes in two rural communities - Chatha in Keiskammahoek district, Ciskei and Shixini in Willowvale district, Transkei. The authors provide a wealth of historical, sociological and ecological detail to describe and assess the implications of the continuation of the present official "betterment" strategy. This is done by comparing conditions in Chatha, where the strategy was implemented in the 1960s, with those in Shixini, where it was being implemented during fieldwork. / Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:rhodes/vital:20231
Date January 1983
CreatorsDe Wet, C J, McAllister, P A
PublisherRhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeBook, Text
Format113 pages, pdf
RightsRhodes University, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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