Book Review-Agrarian Development in Peasant Economics.

Abstract

Dr. Clayton's short book of 147 pages on agrarian development as a general concept draws heavily upon case studies of developments that have occurred in Kenya. In fact the first four chapters focus upon changes in Kenya involving migrations of people and the consequent closer settling and more intensive farming of the land. Naturally these new pressures brought about difficulties : new levels of productivity were needed to increase cropping output, and soil erosion severely threatened the existing cultivated lands.