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Efa 503: Rural Development Question Paper

Efa 503: Rural Development

Course:The Degree Of Master Of Environmental Studies (Agroforestry & Rural Develpment

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2012

DATE: Tuesday 27th March, 2012

TIME: 2.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.

INSTRUCTIONS

Answer Question ONE and any other FOUR Questions.

Q.1) Much as the feminist schools of thought are in agreement that modern development

„liberates women?, they differ in regard to the impact of this development.

(a) Identify and briefly describe these schools of thought, and explain how each views
the impact on women?s liberation.

(12 marks)

(b) Irrespective of their differences, they tend to be in concurrence that gender has
nothing to do with diological sex. Discuss.

(10 marks)

Q.2) In view of rural development, discuss the implications of the following risk-trading

strategies.
(a) Risk-polling

(6 marks)
(b) Risk-spreading

(6 marks)

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Q.3) Shiva (1995) has used the phrase “The disappeared spaces” to reflect on the resultant
elimination of the interface between “forests” and “agriculture”. Explain this in the
context of the “local knowledge system? and „dominant Knowledge Systems?. (12 marks)

Q.4) (a)
Define poverty.

(2 marks)

(b)
Describe and discuss the deprivation trap in which the rural households find

themselves. What in your view are the possible interventions.
(10 marks)

Q.5) Give an analysis of the following:

(a)
The household as an allocation mechanism.

(8 marks)

(b)
the „Communal-feeding-Victimization Disease?.

(4 marks)

Q.6) (a)
contrast credit-only paradigm and credit plus paradigm.

(4 marks)

(b)
From the point of view of gender equity, discuss the intrinsic and extrinsic

empowering process of credit-plus paradigm.

(8 marks)

Q.7) (a)
using the production and consumption as cases in point, describe a
prototypical peasant/rural household.

(4 marks)

(c) Outline and discuss the contrast between the Farming systems Development
(FSD) and the Intra-household Dynamics of peasant/rural households. (8 marks)

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