ABSTRACT
In the past decade, the balance of economic prescriptions for the third world has swung away from industrialization and towards agriculture as a means of achieving economic growth. 1 At the same time governments in less developed countries, whether still under colonial rule or independent, have launched projects for the reorganization of agriculture and for the introduction into agriculture of more advanced technology. Agricultural schemes started in British colonies before independence, and since independence in nations formerly under British rule, have included a wide range of approaches: land consolidation, farm planning, crop rotation, credit schemes, marketing co-operatives, cash crop introduction, mechanization and state farming, among others. Some Settlement Programmes and Schemes in Eight African countries https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315006796/6b2f4dc1-a7d8-4ea4-841c-8aa76837d19b/content/fig1_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Note: Most of the titles of programmes and schemes have been abbreviated. The full titles are given on pages xv—xvi.
