Challenging rural poverty / 
edited by Fassil G. Kiros,. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Trenton, N.J. :  Africa World Press of the Africa Research and Publications Project,  c1985. 
 - vi, 234 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Papers from the First Congress of the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern Africa held in Alemaya, Ethiopia, in June 1983. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Fassil G. Kiros -- The socioeconomic consequences of famine / Mesfin Wolde-Mariam -- Approaches to the problem of rural poverty in Africa / Jossy R. Bibangambah -- Women commodity producers and proletariets : the case of African women / Asseny Muro -- Pitfalls in rural development : the case in Tanzania / Wilfred Mlay -- The impact of population growth on food production in Tanzania : problems and prospects / Mark R. Mujwahuzi -- The pathology of institution building--the Tanzanian case / Dan M. Mudoola -- Organization for development : Tanzania's search for appropriate local level organizational forms / G.R. Mutahaba -- Centre-periphery linkages in the development process : an assessment of the Kenyan experience / W.O. Oyugi -- Administration of cooperatives for rural development in Kenya / P.O. Alila -- The integrated development approach within the context of decentralization in Zambia / M.C. Bwalya -- The Ethiopian experience in agrarian reform / Dessalegn Rahmato -- Opening address / Taye Gulillat. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0865430209 (pbk.) 0865430195 (hard) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>85071371  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rural development--Africa, Eastern--Congresses.<br/>Rural development--Africa, Southern--Congresses.<br/>Institution building--Africa, Eastern--Congresses.<br/>Institution building--Africa, Southern--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN792.Z9  / C626 1985 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>AFR 307.1409 Cha 1985