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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Journal of Peasant Studies 13 (1986) 4, pp. 258-271
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 14 (1979) 3, pp. 295-315
The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...
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Qualitätsstandards für Obst und Gemüse: Treiber oder Hemmschuh ländlicher Entwicklung?
von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Teichmann, Isabel - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 21, pp. 338-347
Der Gartenbau hat sich zu einem der weltweit dynamischsten Agrarsektoren entwickelt. Der Anbau von Obst und Gemüse birgt insbesondere für Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer ein erhebliches Potential, um landwirtschaftliche Einkommen zu steigern und die ländliche Armut zu reduzieren....
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Post-school education in shrinking rural regions: Experiences and solutions from Scotland and Sweden
Tent, Nathalie; Syssner, Josefina; Mose, Ingo; Rennie, Frank - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 82 (2024) 2, pp. 160-174
Against the backdrop of shrinking populations, new strategies for maintaining services of general interest in European rural areas are required at both a European and a German level. With regard to this, the field of post-school education as a service of general interest is seen as playing an...
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Mobile Arbeit aus sozioräumlicher Perspektive: Co-Working Spaces als Chance für suburbane und ländliche Räume?
Krasilnikova, Nadezda; Levin-Keitel, Meike - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 80 (2022) 3, pp. 360-372
The world of labour is undergoing major changes. With the processes of digitalisation, the possibilities to work …
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South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Dube, Sikhalazo; Scholes, Robert J.; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-35, pp. 1-54
in South Africa were simulated using the projections of four Global Circulation Models (GCMs) under three socio …, especially through global-scale, market- related mechanisms. Policies to increase local agricultural production in South Africa …
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BRICS: World heavyweight in agricultural trade
Glauben, Thomas; Djuric, Ivan - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 3, pp. 160-166
BRICS, the 15-year-old alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has emerged as an important actor on …
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Armut, Unterbeschäftigung und soziale Ungleichheit in Asien und Afrika
Simonis, Udo E. - In: Vorgänge: Zeitschrift für Bürgerrechte und … 14 (1975) 5=17, pp. 28-41
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Unternehmer und Grundherren Nord-Nigerias im Kampf um die politische Macht: Zum sozialen Aufstieg der einheimischen Wirtschaftselite in den nigerianischen Emiraten
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 13 (1978) 3, pp. 269-286
The traditional relationship of patronage and clientship between the landlords and the growing commercial class in Bida and in other Nigerian Emirates - firmly established during the 19th century - left indelible marks which influenced the pattern of social communication between these two...
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Enabling trade across borders and food security in Africa
Bonuedi, Isaac; Kamasa, Kofi; Opoku, Eric Evans Osei - In: Food Security 12 (2020) 5, pp. 1121-1140
Widespread food insecurity remains a daunting challenge in Africa, despite significant gains in global efforts to … reductions in documents, time, and costs to export and import – on food security outcomes in Africa. To control for endogeneity … insecurity in Africa. In particular, ineffective trade facilitation is associated with significant increments in the prevalence …
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