This study provides an overview of the impact of small scale irrigation on food security using the case study of Inkosikazi irrigation scheme in the Bubi District of Zimbabwe. The study discovers a set of political, ...
The key challenge to socio-economic transformation in South Africa is closing the gap between the poor and the rich. What is distinctive about South Africa is the uneasy coexistence of poverty and opulence. This study seeks ...
This study deploys the decolonial epistemic perspective in an attempt to unmask the spectre of xenophobia. The decolonial epistemic thinking is in turn predicated on three important concepts, namely coloniality of power, ...
This study was undertaken to explore the barriers to the sustainability of the spaza shops in Atteridgeville (wards, 51, 62, 63, 68, 71 and 72) and to identify the support strategies necessary to assist these shops to grow ...
This thesis is a decolonial feasibility study on the National Department of Housing’s (now National Department of Human Settlement) policy of eradicating informal settlements by 2014. In this thesis I argue that the policy ...
Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world, with most of its population living in rural areas. The study analysed the impact of trade liberalization on peasant farmers
involved in fruit production in Marera ...
The aim is to explore how community participation can situate beneficiaries to discover and commit to what they need for the future in northern Ghana. The methodology used was observational, descriptive, qualitative and ...
Resettlement as a development discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon. This
phenomenon is mainly caused by population pressure, war or prolonged hostilities between countries or groups within the country, irreversible ...
The importance of formal education in socioeconomic development is an established fact.
Formal education leads to better living standards through improved productivity, health and earnings. However, opportunities to acquire ...
The need for an Anthropocentric Development Evaluation stems from the inability of development theory and praxis, which has informed the past Development Decades, to ameliorate abject poverty experienced by most people ...
The general paucity of evaluation of development initiatives,
particularly in the African context, demands that the role of
evaluation in the development process is promoted. In essence,
this follows when a sound ...
International relations are heralding a new era with the
expectation of a new world order. However, the international
community is facing a crisis of perception. They are trying to
apply the concepts of outdated ...
Die Landelike Stigting poog om deur die proses van gemeenskapsontwikkeling die
lewenstandaard en ontwikkelingspeil van die plaaswerkergemeenskap te verhoog.
Binne hierdie proses word volwasse onderwys as belangrike ...
Miljoene mense ervaar voedselonsekerheid en een uit elke 50 hanger mense is woonagtig in Suid Afrika. Daar is genoeg voedsel op ons planeet om elke mens van 'n voldoende voorraad voedsel te verseker; dit waarborg egter ...
The need to carry out an analysis of gender issues in development stems from a concern about the persistent inequalities surrounding African rural women. Women assume social and economic roles inside and outside the household ...
Suid-Afrika het as gevolg van apartheid vir etlike dekades oor 'n gedeeltelik legitieme plaaslike regeringstelsel beskik. Die probleem is dat die land se apartheidsregering afsonderlike stelsels vir blankes en swartes in ...
Momentous choices and opportunities have opened up in South Africa since a settlement
was successfully negotiated and a new political and constitutional dispensation was
created. Events such as the constitutional ...
Traditional development theories concentrated on stimulating economic growth without
considering the extent to which growth would affect rural people's quality of life.
Modernisation has failed to improve life in rural ...
Rural development efforts in Third World countries often fail to meet the needs of
the most disadvantaged members of society. The priviledged continue to get a
disproportionate share of the fruits of development. This ...