Some human and structural constraints on rural development: the Amatola Basin, a Ciskeian case study

Bekker, S B; De Wet, Christopher J

Title: Some human and structural constraints on rural development: the Amatola Basin, a Ciskeian case study
Title: Development Studies Working Paper, no. 5
Creator: Bekker, S B
Creator: De Wet, Christopher J
Subject: Amatola River Watershed (South Africa) Agriculture -- South Africa -- Ciskei Land tenure -- South Africa -- Ciskei Middledrift (South Africa)
Date Issued: 1982
Date: 1982
Type: Book
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2227
Identifier: vital:20267
Identifier: ISBN 0868100900
Description: A rural development project is currently under way in the Amatola Basin, Ciskei. This paper introduces the project and outlines the socio-economic and agricultural conditions current in the area. An overview of present project activities is included. It then attempts to identify a number of potential and actual human and structural constraints operating on the implementation of the project. Such constraints arise out of the existing agricultural system in the project area, as well as out of the state bureaucratic structures operating in Ciskei, and the agency implementing the project itself. One aim is to identify the units involved in dryland cultivation. This is done by tracing ties of cooperation between cultivating households in one Amatola village. It will be shown, in this village at least, that the household does not form the main unit of cultivation. A second aim of this paper is to show that checks on rural development in general should not be sought solely within the area under consideration, but derive to an important degree from outside sources.
Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Format: 25 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
Language: English
Relation: Development Studies Working Paper, no. 5
Rights: Rhodes University
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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