Articles on rural development, regional development, agrarian structures and modernization in North Africa, French speaking Africa and Vanuatu - describes climatology by communications satellite, geographical aspects of rural planning, deforestation and environmental protection; examines the sedentarisation of nomads, food crop vs cash crop agricultural production, rural area social change, role of rural women, plantations and agribusiness, as well as small-scale horticulture. Graphs, maps, photographs, references, statistical tables.

L'agriculture représente le moteur essentiel du développement économique et social pour les pays d'Asie de l'Est et du Sud-Est. Elle y occupe la majorité de la main d'œuvre et doit à la fois assurer la subsistance de la population rurale, faire face à l'augmentation et à la diversification de la consommation urbaine et contribuer à produire des ressources pour l'exportation. L'ouvrage place au cœur de ses préoccupations les petites exploitations villageoises, leurs activités de production, transformation et commercialisation des marchés. (Ouvrage en français et en anglais).

This book is a critical examination of the place and role of land in Africa, the role of land in political formation and national identification, and the land as an economic resource within both national economic development and liberal globalization. Colonial and post-colonial conflicts have been rooted in four related claims: the struggle over scarce resources, especially access to land resources; abundance of natural resources mismanaged or appropriated by both the states, local power systems and multinationals; weak or absent articulated land tenure policies, leading to speculation or hybrid policy framework; and the imperatives of the global liberalization based on the free market principles to regulate the land question and mineral appropriation issue. The actualization of these combined claims have led to conflicts among ethnic groups or between them and governments. This book is not only about conflicts, but also about local policy achievements that have been produced on the land question. It provides a critical understanding of the forces and claims related to land tenure systems, as part of the state policy and its system of governance.