Endangering Development: Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso

by Lars Engberg-Pedersen

The politics of international intervention into rural areas is the subject of this insightful study. Using concrete cases drawn from fieldwork in rural Burkina Faso, Engberg-Pedersen shows how nongovernmental organizations' activities with women's groups, natural resource management projects, decentralization policies, and rural democratization advocates must enter an arena of local struggle for resources and status. He maintains that activists often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275979105
• ISBN13: 9780275979102
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.5"