Migration and Rural Development in Lesotho E-Book

Pietro Del Sette

• Herausgeber: Antonio Raimondi
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

In the last decades of the 20th century, about half of the adult male population of Lesotho migrated on a temporary basis to South Africa to work predominantly in gold mines as well as in other sectors. As such, migrant remittances contributed considerably to the reduction of poverty and to support families in accessing basic assets such as food, cash, education, medical facilities, water, etc. Incomes generated by remittances were used to purchase agricultural inputs to improve subsistence farming.This paper investigates the main characteristics of Lesotho, including its current migrant flows and examines possible interventions for social, livelihood and economic development of rural people and returned home migrants. Furthermore, living conditions of rural people can be improved through a comprehensive and multi-sector rural development, where improvement of water irrigation, agricultural growth and income generation activities constitute main pillars.

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Lesotho: rural development and migration

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Table of contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Migration and Rural Development in Lesotho

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

2. COUNTRY CONTEXT AND PROSPECTS

2.1 The Country

2.2. The People

2.3 Geomorphology

2.4 The Economy

2.5 Rural poverty in Lesotho

3. CHARACTERISTICS OF LESOTHO MIGRATION TO SOUTH AFRICA

3.1 Migration Patterns

3.2 Feminization of Migration from Lesotho

3.3 Resilience

3.4 Remittances

4. RURAL DEVELOPMENT

4.1 Water sector

4.1.1 Lesotho Highlands Water Project

4.1.2 Water Supply

4.1.3 Ground Water Project (Italian Cooperation 1982 – 1993)

4.2 Agriculture sector

5. LINKS BETWEEN RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND MIGRATION

5.1 Potential Actions aimed at rural development and at building resilience of Lesotho’s rural communities

6. CONCLUSIONS

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes

Credits

Acronyms and Abbreviations

CoW:  Commissioner of Water

DRWS:  Department of Rural Water Supply

DWA:  Department of Water Affairs

EDF:  European Development

EU:  European Union

FAO:  Food and Agriculture Organization

GDP:  Gross Domestic Product

GNP:  Gross National Product

GOL:  Government of Lesotho

GWD: Ground Water Division

GWP:  Ground Water Project

IDCO:  Italian Development Cooperation Office

IFAD:  International Fund for Agricultural Development

LHWP:  Lesotho Highlands Water Project

LUNDAP:   Lesotho United Nations Development Assistance Plan

MCC:  Millennium Challenge Corporation

MDA:  Mineworkers Development Agency

MDG:  Millennium Development Goals

MFLR:  Ministry of Forests Land and Reclamation

NGO:  Non-Governmental Organization

NIP:  National Indicative Programme

NSDP:  National Strategic Development Plan

UNDP:  United Nations Development Program

WB:  World Bank

WFP:  World Food Programme of the United Nations

WHO:  World Health Organization of the United Nation