Understanding Africa's Rural Households And Farming Systems

Joyce Lewinger Moock is associate director of agricultural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation and coauthor of Higher Education and Rural Development in Africa: Toward a Balanced Approach for Donor Assistance.

Foreword -- Introduction -- The Invisible Economy of Smallholder Agriculture in Africa -- Components of Farming Systems Research, FSR Credibility, and Experiences in Botswana -- Farming Systems Research, Productivity, and Equity -- On-Farm Research and Household Economics -- Intra-Household Processes and Farming Systems Research: Perspectives from Anthropology -- Intra-Household Bargaining in Response to the Introduction of New Crops: A Case Study from North Cameroon -- The Effects of Social and Economic Changes on the Role and Status of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Household Management in Botswana: Cattle, Crops, and Wage Labor -- Agricultural Production, Social Status, and Intra-Compound Relationships -- Sheep and Goats, Men and Women: Household Relations and Small Ruminant Production in Southwest Nigeria -- Training Staff for Farming Systems Research in Africa -- Household Analysis as an Aid to Farming Systems Research: Methodological Issues -- Macro-Policy Implications of Research on Rural Households and Farming Systems