Population and Development Projects in Africa

by John I. Clarke

Overview

The urgent needs of economic development and of specific development projects throughout Africa have marked effects on the mobility, distribution and demography of local populations. In this wide-ranging volume, professional geographers and others examine the problems of relating development goals to their potential impact on populations and population change. Attention is paid to developments in Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and particularly to the Republic of the Sudan, where there is concern for the balance between urgent needs for the economic development of the Nile's waters, and the effects on patterns of human settlement. This book, brought together for the Commission on Population Geography of the International Geographical Union, will be of value to all concerned with the economic, social and political development of Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521125611
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/17/2009
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

List of tables; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; 1. The demographic background to development in Africa Aderanti Adepoju and John I. Clarke; 2. Development projects and their demographic impact Leszek A. Kosiński; 3. Conceptualisation of the impacts of rural development projects upon population redistribution Abdul Aziz M. Farah, Lufti A. Desougi and Anne M. Lewandowski; 4. Capitalism and the population landscape Galal el-Din el-Tayeb; 5. Unequal participation of migrant labour in wage employment El Watig Mohamed Kameir and Zeinab B. El Bakri; 6. Africa's displaced population: dependency or self-sufficiency? John R. Rogge; 7. Population redistribution and agricultural settlement schemes in Ethiopia, 1958–80 Adrian P. Wood; 8. Populating Uganda's dry lands John B. Kabera; 9. Environmental and agricultural impacts of Tanzania's villagisation programme Michael McCall; 10. Development and population redistribution: measuring recent population redistribution in Tanzania Ian Thomas; 11. Communal villages and the distribution on the rural population in the People's Republic of Mozambique Manuel G. M. De Araújo; 12. A century of development measures and population redistribution along the Upper Zambezi Adrian P. Wood; 13. Resettlement and under-development in the Black 'Homelands' of South Africa C. M. Rogerson and E. M. Letsoalo; 14. Development programmes and population redistribution in Nigeria Aderanti Adpoju; 15. Population, disease and rural development programmes in the Upper East Region of Ghana George Benneh; 16. Demographic intermediation between development and population redistribution in Sudan Abdul Aziz M. Farah; 17. A typology of mobility transition in developing societies, with application to North and Central Sudan Mohamed el-Hadi Abusin; 18. Rural population and water supplies in the Sudan Yagoub Abdalla Mohamed and Mohamed el-Hadi Abusin; 19. The impact of the Kenana Project on population redistribution Babiker Abdalla Abdel Rahman and Amna Beshir Homoudi; 20. Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme Mohammed Osman El Sammani; 21. The Gash Δ: labour organisation in pastoral economy versus labour requirements in agricultural production Hassan Mohomed Salih; 22. The impact of development projects on population redistribution to Gedaref Town in Eastern Sudan Mahgoub O. Gaafar and K. V. Ramachandran; 23. The growth of Juba in Southern Sudan L. R. Mills; Index.