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Rural Development in Zambia: a Spatial Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

David J. Siddle
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Rural development in tropical Africa is taking place on two broad fronts. First, there are the major schemes of improvement inspired by the economic planners of government or international agencies. These range in size from a few massive resettlement projects, such as those associated with major dams (the Kariba or the Volta), to the medium-scale exercises in improved agriculture, co-operative farming and village regrouping which are common in most of the newly independent African states. There is a second type of rural development, however, which is much less obvious and goes largely unrecorded. This involves the apparently piecemeal diffusion of minor services—shops, clinics, schools, agricultural demonstration units, transport and marketing facilities—little of which is planned. Even the co-ordination between public and private sectors, and between the government departments involved in the extension of these services, is limited and frequently ineffectual.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , July 1970 , pp. 271 - 284
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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Page 281 note 1 The grid base chosen was that used by the Government's Office of National Development and Planning for a nation-wide survey of services and resources which is still in progress.

Page 282 note 1 The smaller stores were distinguished from the larger ones principally according to their trading licence value, and six of the smallest stores were treated as equivalent to one larger shop.

Page 283 note 1 Since the field work for this article was carried out, the decision has been made to transfer certain functions to Monze, preparatory to dividing the district into two separate units.

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