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Title: | Monitoring the Evolution of Household Economic Systems over Time in Farming Systems Research |
Author: | McMillan, Delia E. |
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. |