Tony Binns
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 147695 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tony Binns |
| NOMBRES | Tony |
| APELLIDO | Binns |
| FIRMA | BINNS T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1803-7218 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 81 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 389 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
How inclusive is South Africa’s green economy? A qualitative case study of the Working for Water Programme
Over the past 15 years, South Africa has embraced ‘green economy’ policy approaches aimed at tackling social and environmental challenges. However, concerns have emerged that these approaches may inadvertently exclude marginalised communities and fail to address the systemic factors perpetuating inequities. Drawing upon field-based research in the Agulhas Plain, we critically examine how the green economy concept is understood and applied in Sout…
Africa
African Economies
Africa's People
Africa is populated by a rich and culturally diverse population which is experiencing significant processes of demographic and social change. Research focusing on Africa’s people has, in the past discussed the colonization and exploitation of the continent and its people, and some attention has been focused on the African diaspora, particularly in North America, but also on the eastern shores of Latin America, where slaves were taken to plantatio…
Rural Africa
This chapter begins by addressing the issue of land tenure arrangements, which plays a fundamental role in determining the nature of rural livelihoods, such as agriculture, pastoralism, fishing and forestry. It reviews the key characteristics and challenges inherent in a range of common livelihood strategies, but it is important to emphasize the spatial and temporal dynamism of rural life. However, the chapter sector tends to make up agriculture’…
Developing Africa
African Environments
History and Governance
Conflict and Post-Conflict
Conclusion
Having presented an extensive overview of the broad themes which characterize Africa’s development and its place in the world, in the chapter attempts to synthesize what they have learned and consider some possible future trends and scenarios. There has been much debate about why similar countries with broadly comparable resource and environmental endowments have achieved very different development outcomes. While Africa has experienced some of t…
Urban Africa
Introduction
In the early 21st century, Africa is widely perceived as being the world’s poorest continent, with a seemingly endless agenda of development priorities. Africa’s rapid population growth rates, the world’s highest and averaging 2.45 per cent annually, will lead to an estimated total population of 1,688 billion in 2030, a fifth of the world’s population, and larger than either China or India. In terms of the quality of life in Africa as reflected i…
Health and Development
Facing post-crisis livelihood challenges? Insights from young farmers in Kenema city, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone
Experiences of love in diaspora tourism
The paper reports on a study which explored how a sense of love is experienced in diaspora tourist experiences. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with the Sierra Leonean community in London, England, accessing the feelings and meanings of the tourists. Following thematic analysis, it was revealed that the emotion of love manifested itself as a tourist motivator, as on-site experience emotion and as an outcome of the visiting expe…
Resilience without development' in a remote rural West African community
Relatively few longitudinal studies have been undertaken of change and development among rural communities in Africa. Drawing on field-based research conducted over almost five decades, the article examines the shocks and adaptive strategies experienced in the remote rural community of Kayima in north-eastern Sierra Leone. In coping with both external and internal shocks and displaying a remarkable level of resilience, there has however been very…
Climate change and community resilience in Samoa
Being resilient in the face of climate change seems especially important for island societies, which face the effects of rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, changing wind patterns and sea level rise. To date, most studies of adaptation and resilience among Pacific island communities have used indicators and methods rooted in Western science and neo‐classical economics. These have been criticized as being locally irrelevant and inadequate…
Positionality and protocol in field research
This article considers the experiences of a Samoan female geographer undertaking community‐based field research in her home country, and identifies some lessons for researchers working in similar circumstances. The paper suggests that ethical behaviour in research is ‘place‐specific’, and there is therefore a need to employ culturally sensitive and ‘location‐specific’ methodologies when undertaking community‐based research fieldwork. For the lead…
Transforming Freetown’
Exploring host perspectives towards younger international development volunteers
Research on international development volunteering has increased significantly in recent decades, but there is a need for greater depth of understanding in relation to host communities. This article examines the impact of younger volunteers from the perspectives of host community members, evaluating the positive and negative aspects in working with young people from the “UniVol” programme of Volunteer Service Abroad, New Zealand. It argues that f…
Handbook of African Development
Participatory Development
Participatory development aims to engage local people in planning for development interventions which are normally intended to benefit them. Since World War II there has been a gradual move away from large‐scale, dictatorial, “top‐down” development projects to smaller, more democratic, “bottom‐up,” community‐based initiatives. A wide range of participatory methodologies have been devised for acquiring data which can be used to shape development i…
Rural livelihoods and food security
Sierra Leone is one of the world's poorest countries, which in the last two decades has suffered from a devastating civil war and, more recently, an epidemic of the deadly Ebola disease. Both economy and livelihoods have suffered considerably, and the government and local communities are now working hard to rebuild these. Food insecurity has been a longstanding issue among Sierra Leone's rural households. This article considers some of the main p…
A High Road to Sustainability? Wildflower Harvesting, Ethical Trade and Social Upgrading in South Africa's Western Cape
This paper evaluates the outcomes from an ambitious wildflower harvesting programme in South Africa's Western Cape, which has sought to achieve positive outcomes in terms of socio-economic development and biodiversity conservation. Indigenous wildflowers, harvested according to conservation principles, are processed into 'Cape Flora' bouquets and sold into international and domestic markets. The principal supply chain provides an example of ethic…
Africa
Africa: Diversity and Development introduces and de-mystifies Africa’s diversity and dynamism, and considers how its peoples and environments have interacted through time and space. The book examines the background and diversity of Africa’s social, cultural, economic, political and environmental systems, as well as key development issues which have affected Africa in the past and are likely to be significant in shaping the future of the continent…
Farming miners’ or ‘mining farmers’
Globalization and the Changing Networks of Food Supply
Set within the context of the global food supply system, this paper examines the growing trade in fresh horticultural produce between Kenya and the UK. The links between UK retailers and Kenyan producers are investigated using the concept of the marketing chain. Two major chains are identified ‐ wholesale and supermarket – and, whilst having no direct investment in Kenya, it is the supermarkets who control production there, through intermediaries…
People and Environment in Africa
General issues the effects of urbanization on rural environments in Africa environmental resources - their use and management by the Bedouin of the Nubian Desert of southern Egypt West Africa - desertification, drought and development in the Sahel local agro-ecological management and forest-savanna transitions - the case of Kissidougou, Guinea southern Africa - sustainability of smallholder food production systems in southern Africa - the case of…
Tourism as a local development strategy in South Africa
The promotion of tourism has been identified as a key strategy that can lead to economic upliftment, community development and poverty relief in the developing world. In the last few years, tourism has also emerged as a significant development option in post-apartheid South Africa. In the context of some current debates on tourism in poor countries, the paper examines how economic, social and environmental resources are being utilized to promote …
Place Marketing, Tourism Promotion, and Community based Local Economic Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Local economic development(LED) is a common community-based development response to changes in the economic fortunes of a locality. Various economic strategies are associated with LED, some of the most prominent being those of place marketing and attempts to refocus economic activity along new or previously underused avenues, with tourism promotion being an increasingly common option. The authors examine the responses of the small community of St…
Urban agriculture under threat
Beyond the development impasse
The failure of successive generations of imported, Western development strategies and projects to deliver meaningful reductions in poverty and achieve basic needs in Africa, has provoked a deep questioning of Western concepts and methodologies of development. Non-governmental organisations and development practitioners are increasingly focusing their attention on strategies which build upon local knowledge, skills and resources. The concepts of '…
Urban farming associations, youth and food security in post-war Freetown, Sierra Leone
Temporary labour migration and sustainable post-conflict return in Sierra Leone
The Village in a Game Park
Changing economic circumstances as a result of deindustrialization and market forces dramatically affect local areas and lead to a variety of local‐level responses. Economic change and the reaction to this process have received much attention in the context of the decline of old heavy industrial regions in Western Europe and North America. But deindustrialization is also occurring elsewhere, for example, in countries such as South Africa, where t…
Alienation and obligation
This paper will explore social change in contemporary Samoan society with respect to the traditional expectations of the church and kinship conflicting with the modern needs of an urbanising population. In the Samoan way of life – the fa'aSamoa – religion, matai (chiefly system) and reciprocal ‘gift‐giving’ kinship arrangements among the aiga (extended family) are fundamental and closely related elements. However, pressures from continued integra…
Devolving Development
The post-apartheid government in South Africa faces significant challenges in coming to terms with the country's apartheid legacy. In addition, newly adopted principles of democratic participation and civic responsibility have made local government a key focal point for development initiatives. This article examines how attempts to correct past injustices, and to strengthen local government planning and administration, are to be undertaken throug…
Development from below in the 'New' South Africa
Economic crisis and food security in Africa
Land, landlords and sustainable livelihoods
Pathways, motivations and challenges
Marginal lands, marginal geographies
Fishing Farmers' or 'Farming Fishermen'? The Quest for Household Income and Nutritional Security on the Kenyan Shores of Lake Victoria
The paper considers the relationships between fishing and farming in providing household income and nutritional security among Luo communities on the shores of the Kenyan sector of Lae Victoria. In recent years the resources of Lake Victoria have come under severe pressure due to a variety of economic and ecological factors associated with over-fishing and a significant decline in fish species. Farming has increased in importance as households at…
Catching the development train’
Government policy in post-1994 South Africa, whilst upholding the principles of community participation and development, has been firmly wedded to a neoliberal growth agenda. This paper critically examines whether one element of that new growth agenda, that of Spatial Development Initiatives, has catalysed both ‘bottom-up’ development and also meaningfully assisted micro-entrepreneurs through more ‘top-down’ interventions. The paper focuses on tw…
Transforming Freetown’
Decline and response in South Africa's Free State goldfields
Gold mining has played a vital role in the growth of South Africa's economy and the creation of major industrial and business centres such as Johannesburg. In recent years gold production has contracted, leading to widespread redundancies among mineworkers. The situation is particularly serious in the Free State goldfields, which are centred upon Matjhabeng municipality and the city of Welkom. The downsizing and closure of many gold mines has had…
Empowerment for development
This paper examines the potential for Participatory Rural Appraisal techniques to contribute to community development and empowerment in a deprived rural community in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. A series of participatory workshops was undertaken in which various new techniques were used to identify people-environment relationships and, in particular, the community perception of the value and problems relating to the river and ripar…
Crisis in policy, policy in crisis
This article explores the emergence and persistence of crisis narratives in the policy environment of twentieth century Nigeria. It finds that environmental crisis narratives have a well-established and traceable historical lineage, initially, as continuity between colonial and post-colonial policy discourse, but more recently with donor agencies gaining increasing importance in influencing and shaping debate. Counter-narratives are identified, b…
South Africa's Current Transition in Temporal and Spatial Context
This article analyses South Africa’s current postapartheid transition in the light of earlier transformations of its social and economic order. The first of these prior transformations is the abolition of slavery and the shift to liberal capitalism, which took place in the early nineteenth century. The second is the rapid industrialization of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each of these transformations, as well as the current …
Are groups a good thing? Evaluating group associations among vegetable farmers in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is a widespread feature in sub-Saharan African cities, and has become particularly important in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Recent surveys have revealed the importance of UPA in Freetown as a method for generating food, income, and employment. Government and NGOs have encouraged urban farmers to group together into farming associations so that advice and inputs can be provided. Little information currently exist…
Geography and Integrated Rural Development
During the 1970's, many development projects in the rural areas of Third World countries were labelled ‘Integrated Rural Development’ (IRD) and the lending policies of organisations such as the Wor
The Resources of Rural Africa
Journal Article THE RESOURCES OF RURAL AFRICA: A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE Get access J. A. BINNS J. A. BINNS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 83, Issue 330, January 1984, Pages 33–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097598 Published: 01 January 1984
Third world studies at Sussex
Inequality and development in rural West Africa
Postgraduate supervision
(1989). Postgraduate supervision: the continuing debate. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 209-216
Irrigation and rural development in Morocco
Land and Society in Contemporary Africa
Journal Article Land and Society in Contemporary Africa Get access Land and Society in Contemporary Africa, edited by R. E. Downs and S. P. Reyna. University Press of New England, Hanover and London, 1988. xiii+383 pp. £30 hardback. ISBN 0 87451 456 8. J. A. BINNS J. A. BINNS University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 356, July 1990, Pages 468–469, https://doi.or…
Property, Poverty and People
Journal Article Property, Poverty and People: Changing rights in property and problems of pastoral development Get access Property, Poverty and People: Changing rights in property and problems of pastoral development, edited by P. T. W. Baxter with R. Hogg. Department of Social Anthropology and International Development Centre, University of Manchester, 1989. xiv + 274 pp. £11.00 paperback (p. & p. surface mail all countries £15.00, air mail £19.…
Geography and education
Geography and education
Geography and education
People and Environment in Africa
General issues the effects of urbanization on rural environments in Africa environmental resources - their use and management by the Bedouin of the Nubian Desert of southern Egypt West Africa - desertification, drought and development in the Sahel local agro-ecological management and forest-savanna transitions - the case of Kissidougou, Guinea southern Africa - sustainability of smallholder food production systems in southern Africa - the case of…
Fishing Farmers' or 'Farming Fishermen'? The Quest for Household Income and Nutritional Security on the Kenyan Shores of Lake Victoria
The paper considers the relationships between fishing and farming in providing household income and nutritional security among Luo communities on the shores of the Kenyan sector of Lae Victoria. In recent years the resources of Lake Victoria have come under severe pressure due to a variety of economic and ecological factors associated with over-fishing and a significant decline in fish species. Farming has increased in importance as households at…
Development from below in the 'New' South Africa
The changing nature of informal street trading in post-apartheid South Africa
Globalization and the Changing Networks of Food Supply
Set within the context of the global food supply system, this paper examines the growing trade in fresh horticultural produce between Kenya and the UK. The links between UK retailers and Kenyan producers are investigated using the concept of the marketing chain. Two major chains are identified ‐ wholesale and supermarket – and, whilst having no direct investment in Kenya, it is the supermarkets who control production there, through intermediaries…
Beyond the development impasse
The failure of successive generations of imported, Western development strategies and projects to deliver meaningful reductions in poverty and achieve basic needs in Africa, has provoked a deep questioning of Western concepts and methodologies of development. Non-governmental organisations and development practitioners are increasingly focusing their attention on strategies which build upon local knowledge, skills and resources. The concepts of '…
Empowerment for development
This paper examines the potential for Participatory Rural Appraisal techniques to contribute to community development and empowerment in a deprived rural community in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. A series of participatory workshops was undertaken in which various new techniques were used to identify people-environment relationships and, in particular, the community perception of the value and problems relating to the river and ripar…
Rural self-reliance strategies in South Africa
South Africa's Current Transition in Temporal and Spatial Context
This article analyses South Africa’s current postapartheid transition in the light of earlier transformations of its social and economic order. The first of these prior transformations is the abolition of slavery and the shift to liberal capitalism, which took place in the early nineteenth century. The second is the rapid industrialization of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each of these transformations, as well as the current …
Geographies of Development
Table of Contents Introduction 1. Questioning Development 2. Understanding Colonialism 3. Theories and Strategies of Development 4. Globalisation, Development and Underdevelopment 5. People in the Development Process 6. Resources and the Environment 7. Institutions of Development 8. Movements and Flows 9. Urban Spaces 10. Rural Spaces Conclusion
Community‐based development, non‐governmental organizations and social capital in post‐apartheid south africa
Community‐based development strategies are gaining in credibility and acceptance in development circles internationally and notably in post‐apartheid South Africa. In parallel, the concept of social capital and the role of supportive nongovernmental organizations are receiving attention as key catalytic elements in encouraging and assisting community‐based initiatives. In this paper, a well‐documented initiative, the Hertzog Agricultural Co‐opera…
Community-based development, non-governmental organizations and social capital in post-apartheid South Africa
Urban agriculture under threat
Initiating 'Developmental Local Government' in South Africa
Local economic development policy and practice has evolved significantly in the post-apartheid era in South Africa. This article reviews recent local economic development policy and legal developments, particularly with respect to the enhanced development requirements and expectations being placed on local governments in that country. The factors encouraging this focus on 'development local government' are analysed, key policies and laws outlined…
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