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Southern Africa after apartheid : regional integration and external resources

Medarbetare:	Odén, Bertil
Utgivare:	Uppsala : : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	1993
Ämnesord:	Southern Africa, Regional integration, Development aid, Economic integration, International trade, Regional cooperation, SADCC, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

This anthology with Southern African and Nordic scholars contains a wide-ranging, critical and analytical discussion of some of the crucial issues related to the future of Southern Africa.

Famine and survival strategies : a case study from northeast Ethiopia

Upphovsperson:	Dessalegn, Rahmato
Utgivare:	Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	1991
Ämnesord:	Wollo - Etiopien, Etiopien, Northeast Africa, East Africa, Famine, Food shortage, Food production, Rural population, Agriculture, Economic conditions, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

This study importantly changes the focus to what happens before a famine comes, and how the peasants prepare for it. Paradoxically, the author concludes that it is in the years of recovery that the seeds of famine are sown. The study revolves around a case study in the awraja (district) in the Ambassel Wollo province in northeastern Ethiopia. The author also critically examines other literature on famine response.

A new partnership for African development : issues and parameters

Medarbetare:	Olukoshi, Adebayo O. | Wohlgemuth, Lennart | Kifle, Henock
Utgivare:	Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; African Development Institute in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Partnership Africa, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
År:	1997
Ämnesord:	Development aid, Democratization, Economic development, Aid policy, Capacity building, Aid dependency, Africa, Sweden, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

As part of the on-going review by the Swedish government of the entire basis for its relations with Africa, a seminar on the theme Partnership Africa was convened in Abidjan in January 1997 under the auspices of Nordiska Afrikainstitutet and the African Development Institute of the African Development Bank. The Seminar was attended by some 25 scholars, development bankers, government officials and civil society activists from all parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and some 10 development co-operation officials and academics from Sweden and the other Nordic countries.The aim of the Abidjan seminar was to enable participants to explore the problems of and prospects for the establishment of a new partnership between Sweden and Africa  in the context of the major changes that have taken place on the global and regional scenes over the last decade. For this purpose, various issues central to the history and dynamics of North-South relations generally and Swedish-Africa co-operation in particular were critically examined. Participants also sketched out what they considered to be the essential pre-conditions and parameters for a new partnership, one that would be premised on greater equality, mutual respect and a transparency of purpose and goals.This publication brings together in a volume, the various papers which were commissioned to serve as background materials for the debate that took place in Abidjan. The volume was edited for publication by Henock Kifle, Director of the African Development Institute of the ADB, Adebayo O. Olukoshi and Lennart Wohglemuth, respectively Senior Researcher and Director of Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.

Contesting views and changing paradigms : the land degradation debate in Southern Africa

Upphovsperson:	Dahlberg, Annika
Utgivare:	Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	1994
Ämnesord:	Southern Africa, Environmental degradation, Desertification, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

This study deals with issues of environmental change and degradation, with special reference to Southern Africa. Over the last couple of decades this debate has become quite heated. The aim of this paper is to clarify contrasting opinions, and to describe the more far-reaching shifts in scientific thinking. This is done by discussing definitions of the processes involved, the commonly used indicators and ascribed causes of degradation and the importance of time and space, especially in the context of the variability and heterogeneity which characterises the semi-arid environments. The value of interdisciplinarity is highlighted throughout the paper.

Twice humanity : implications for local and global resource use

Medarbetare:	Berger, Amelie
Utgivare:	Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	1998
Ämnesord:	Agriculture, Ecology, Environmental effects, Environmental management, Research, Resources management, Sustainable development, Developing countries, Conference papers, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

This book is the result of the conference "Twice Humanity - Implications for local and global resource use", and consists of select papers which all contribute to the discussion of sustainable development in relation to the growing population and the unbalanced use of resources which will limit our future way of life.

Can national dialogue break the power of terror in Burundi? : report on the impact of the international conference National Dialogue held in Bujumbura on May 15-18 [1994] on Burundian efforts to restore democratic process in the country

Medarbetare:	Červenka, Zdenek | Legum, Colin
Utgivare:	Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	1994
Ämnesord:	Burundi, Central Africa, Democracy, Civil war, Violence, Conflicts, Ethnicity, Foreign intervention, History, Post war, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

A report on the impact of the international conference "National Dialogue" held in Bujumbura in May 1994 on Burundian efforts to restore democratic process in the country.

When the grass is gone : development intervention in African arid lands

Medarbetare:	Baxter, Paul Trevor William
Utgivare:	Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	1991
Ämnesord:	Africa, Development policy, Environmental effects, Environmental degradation, Arid zone, Conference papers, Pastoralism, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

This book discusses some of the consequences of development interventions for ordinary people, and some of their environmental concomitants. The contributors all raise new questions of how to redeem the people who live in the arid lands from their present predicament and how to enable them to manage their own future. Many of the insights have been sharpened by ideas well-known to peasants and pastoralists, but seldom discussed among policymakers.

Socioeconomic stress, health and child nutritional status in Zimbabwe at a time of economic structural adjustment : a three-year longitudinal study

Upphovspersoner:	Bijlmakers, Leon A. | Basset, Mary T. | Sanders, David M.
Utgivare:	Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	1998
Ämnesord:	Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Structural adjustment, Child health, Child nutrition, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

This report intervenes in the debate on the implications of structural adjustment for the social sector in Africa. It finds a strong association between structural adjustment implementation and a sharp deterioration both in the household economy and in the health status of the working poor in urban and rural Zimbabwe.

Seeds for African peasants : peasants' needs and agricultural research - the case of Zimbabwe

Upphovsperson:	Friis-Hansen, Esbern
Utgivare:	Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	1995
Ämnesord:	Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Agriculture, Plant breeding, Seeds, Farming systems, Agricultural policy, Economic and social development, Sustainable development, Agricultural development, Agricultural research, Maps, Plant production, Växtproduktion

The book provides a comprehensive discussion about the role of agricultural seed in sustainable peasant agriculture and concludes by presenting new principles for sustainable poverty-oriented plant breeding.

Small town Africa : studies in rural-urban interaction

Medarbetare:	Baker, Jonathan
Utgivare:	Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	1990
Ämnesord:	Finland, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Foreign relations, National liberation movements, Student movements, ANC, SWAPO, Urban development, Rural development, Conference papers, Political science, Statsvetenskap

Small towns have often been considered as unimportant and have been largely ignored by policy-makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change without consideration of the positive contribution that small towns can make to rural transformation. But for the rural majority of Africa's population it is the small town with which they have the most intense contacts. Case studies are presented from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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