Rural production systems in the Sudan: a general perspective

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Title:	Rural production systems in the Sudan: a general perspective
Author:	Ahmed, Abdel Ghaffar Mohamed
Year:	1991
Pages:	17
Language:	English
City of publisher:	The Hague
Publisher:	Institute of Social Studies
Geographic term:	Sudan
Subjects:	economic conditions agricultural production
Abstract:	Around the mid-1970s, the Sudan was described as a potential 'breadbasket of the Arab world and Africa'. Hopes for the development of the country's economy were running high and the investment of Arab oil-generated revenues in Sudanese agriculture seemed to hold immense promise. By the end of the 1970s, however, these high hopes began to turn into an economic nightmare. The post-Nimeiri period (from April 1985) didn't see any improvement in the economic performance of the country. This paper gives an overview of the economic performance of the Sudan during the 1980s, discusses the apparent bias among planners against pastoralists and small cultivators, describes the production systems in the civil war zone in the South, and considers the contribution of the Sudan to future development in the Horn.