Telecommunications in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fixed telecommunication lines have been available to only about 1% of Africans. Unsatisfied demand for fixed lines led African subscribers to welcome cellular phones as a viable alternative. Only in 1987 was the very first cellular call in Africa made in
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DetlefVirchow • Joachim von Braun (Eds.)
Villages in the Future Crops, Jobs and Livelihood
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Dr. Detlef Virchow Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn Walter-Flex-StraBe 3 53113 Bonn Germany E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Joachim von Braun Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn Walter-Flex-StraBe 3 53113 Bonn Germany E-mail: [email protected] Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com.
ISBN 978-3-642-62703-3 ISBN 978-3-642-56575-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-56575-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Villages in the future: crops, jobs, and livelihood 1 Detlef Virchow, Joachim von Braun (eds.). p.c m.(Global dialogue EXPO 2000) Papers presented at the Global Dialogue in Hannover at the World Exposition in August 2000. Includes bibliographical references (p.). ISBN 978-3-642-62703-3 1. Rural development-Congresses. 2. Villages-Congresses. 3. Economic policyCongresses.1. Virchow, D. (Detlef), 1959- II. Von Braun, Joachim, 1950- III. Series. HN49.C6 V53 2001 307.1' 412-dc21 2001049392 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitations, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Veriag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law.
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Preface This book is not the usual volume about the proceedings of an academic conference. In some respects, it is a more modest undertaking. We are not aiming for a grand, state-of-the-art synthesis of rural development but are merely offering selective contributions to solving an immense problem. In other respects, this book is more ambitious. Our goal is to contribute to a process and an international debate about the future of the village in the 21sI century. This volume is part of ZEF's contribution to the discussion about rural change under the umbrella ofthe Global Dialogues ofthe World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hannover (Germany) . It was initiated in 1998 and included conference dialogues on information te
