The Niger Agricultural Project : An Experiment in African Development

Baldwin, Kenneth David Sutherland

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge [MA], 1957

About this Item

221,(8) pp., 23x14cm, Some stains to binding. Contents: Foreword by Professor S.H. Frankel; Note by Colonial Development Corporation; The Origin of the Project; Population and Settlements; Labour in a Sparsely Populated Area; The Settler Problem; The Incomes of the Settlers;Yields and Returns; Mechanical Problems and Costs; Comparison with Local Farming and a Sudanese Scheme; Share-Cropping; problems of Individual Adaptation; The Failure to Improve on African Agriculture; Aims and Achinements; The Lessons of Mokwa; Appendices: Note on Vegetation; Rainfall Figures; Cost and Statistical Tables. Minor rubbing. Some light top page-edge spotting. VG., dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Niger Agricultural Project : An Experiment in African Development
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge [MA]
• Publication Date: 1957
• Binding: orig. cloth
• Illustrator: 8pp. photoplates; map.
• Seller catalogs:
  • African Colonial History