search through journal, Scientific research in Africa should be aimed at optimizing human and material resources. Scientific education is of fundamental importance in promoting the growth of productivity. While African technological growth is desirable, it must be considered in the light of the relevant cultural and economic backgrounds. Technological transfer should be approached with caution, and only appropriate or adaptable techniques should be imported. Capital-intensive industries of the West are not suitable for third world countries with much labour and little capital (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00784
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192 pages., (p. 115) Argues that "subsistence" is misunderstood. Suggests that it specializes in low profit/low risk actions involving food production and local trade rather than high profit/high risk activity linked to urban merchants and long-distance trade routes.
(p. 116) "Academic and professional commentators on African agriculture have too often tended either to ignore female farming or to assume that it was undertaken for subsistence purposes."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1 videocassette (52 min.)
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Describes the religion of voodooism and gives an account of its history in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Filmed in New York, the work contains interviews with participants and depictions of ceremonies;
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14428
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Published for the World Bank, Washington, D.C., Chapter 6 in Michael M. Cernea (ed.), Putting people first: sociological variables in rural development. Oxford University Press, New York/London. 430 pages.
