The Social Cost of Small Families & Land Reform

(partial) Foreword, D Parkin. Acknowledgements. Introduction. The Taita: The setting. Traditional society. Colonialism and its Legacy: The coming of colonialism and the settler economy. The underdevelopment of African agriculture. Swynnerton and traditional land tenure systems. Population Growth and Socio-Economic Changes: Population growth and demographic pressure in Taita: migration as a response. Average landholding and land distribution. Population as a labour resource. Food production, consumption, and cash expenditure. Formal education: the parental gamble and the growth of a land market. Family planning: the wish, the knowledge and the practice. Conclusion. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.