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Title:Monitoring the Evolution of Household Economic Systems over Time in Farming Systems Research
Author:McMillan, Delia E.ISNI
Year:1987
Periodical:Development and Change
Volume:18
Issue:2
Period:April
Pages:295-314
Language:English
Geographic term:Burkina Faso
Subjects:settlement schemes
family
land use
agricultural land
Economics and Trade
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Women's Issues
Bibliography/Research
External link:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1987.tb00275.x
Abstract:One method for obviating the overly static view of household characteristic of most farming systems research (FSR) is through the incorporation of intensive microlevel case studies of a small number of households within a more broadly based farm monitoring survey. The utility of this approach is demonstrated with reference to a study of the economic and social consequences of the Volta Valley Authority (AW) project, Burkina Faso, for a group of voluntary settlers from the central Mossi Plateau, in the period July 1977 - December 1979. After describing the organization and design of the AW and the role of the project's farm monitoring unit, the author presents a comparison of the research methods and results of the farm monitoring programme and those of the case study. The case study provided invaluable complementary information to the AW's farm monitoring programme, particularly with reference to the sources and level of household income, the sufficiency of food produced and creation of a regional grain surplus, and the project's effect on women. Some of the implications of the AW study for the design of monitoring systems for FSR are discussed in conclusion. Bibliogr., notes.
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