Towards Sustainable Development in Rural Africa

• Main Author: D. Turnham
• Format: Publication
• Language: English
• Published: OECD Development Centre 1999
• Subjects: Africa; Agricultural marketing reform; Agriculture and food; Agriculture and food.Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management; Agriculture and food.Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management.Soil and land management; Agriculture and food.Agroforestry; Agriculture and food.Crop production seeds and fertilizers; Agriculture and food.Environmental protection natural resource management; Agriculture and food.Forest policies and management; Agriculture and food.Land tenure; Agriculture and food.Market oriented production and trade; agriculture forestry; agriculture irrigation; Environment; Environment.Forestry; Food security and agriculture; forestry food; Governance; Governance.Privatisation of infrastructure; Government; healthpov; land use; Poverty; Private sector; resource management; Rural development; Statistics; Statistics.Statistics; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Water privatisation; women

A growing recognition of the need to delimit the role of the government, to promote the market framework, and to rely on the private sector as the engine of growth, offers the prospect of a new beginning in rural development in Africa. Rural people must take a more dominant role, both in shaping their economic prospects and in assuming the responsibility for a high quality of stewardship of natural resources. To help to bring about such an empowerment of the people, governments and the donors will need to undertake some drastic reforms in the old systems and habits of governance.