Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The demographic background to development in Africa
- 2 Development projects and their demographic impact
- 3 Conceptualization of the impacts of rural development projects upon population redistribution
- 4 Capitalism and the population landscape
- 5 Unequal participation of migrant labour in wage employment
- 6 Africa's displaced population: dependency or self-sufficiency?
- 7 Population redistribution and agricultural settlement schemes in Ethiopia, 1958–80
- 8 Populating Uganda's dry lands
- 9 Environmental and agricultural impacts of Tanzania's villagization programme
- 10 Development and population redistribution: measuring recent population redistribution in Tanzania
- 11 Communal villages and the distribution of the rural population in the People's Republic of Mozambique
- 12 A century of development measures and population redistribution along the Upper Zambezi
- 13 Resettlement and under-development in the Black ‘Homelands’ of South Africa
- 14 Development programmes and population redistribution in Nigeria
- 15 Population, disease and rural development programmes in the Upper East Region of Ghana
- 16 Demographic intermediation between development and population redistribution in Sudan
- 17 A typology of mobility transition in developing societies, with application to North and Central Sudan
- 18 Rural population and water supplies in the Sudan
- 19 The impact of the Kenana Project on population redistribution
- 20 Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme
- 21 The Gash Delta: labour organization in pastoral economy versus labour requirements in agricultural production
- 22 The impact of development projects on population redistribution to Gedaref Town in Eastern Sudan
- 23 The growth of Juba in Southern Sudan
- Index
20 - Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The demographic background to development in Africa
- 2 Development projects and their demographic impact
- 3 Conceptualization of the impacts of rural development projects upon population redistribution
- 4 Capitalism and the population landscape
- 5 Unequal participation of migrant labour in wage employment
- 6 Africa's displaced population: dependency or self-sufficiency?
- 7 Population redistribution and agricultural settlement schemes in Ethiopia, 1958–80
- 8 Populating Uganda's dry lands
- 9 Environmental and agricultural impacts of Tanzania's villagization programme
- 10 Development and population redistribution: measuring recent population redistribution in Tanzania
- 11 Communal villages and the distribution of the rural population in the People's Republic of Mozambique
- 12 A century of development measures and population redistribution along the Upper Zambezi
- 13 Resettlement and under-development in the Black ‘Homelands’ of South Africa
- 14 Development programmes and population redistribution in Nigeria
- 15 Population, disease and rural development programmes in the Upper East Region of Ghana
- 16 Demographic intermediation between development and population redistribution in Sudan
- 17 A typology of mobility transition in developing societies, with application to North and Central Sudan
- 18 Rural population and water supplies in the Sudan
- 19 The impact of the Kenana Project on population redistribution
- 20 Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme
- 21 The Gash Delta: labour organization in pastoral economy versus labour requirements in agricultural production
- 22 The impact of development projects on population redistribution to Gedaref Town in Eastern Sudan
- 23 The growth of Juba in Southern Sudan
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The New Haifa Scheme is the outcome of the resettlement of the Nubian Halfawyeen population (from Wadi Haifa), whose land was drowned by the High Dam, along with the partial settlement of the local nomadic groups (e.g. Shukriya, Lahawiyeen, Khawalda), the indigenous owners of the land, in return for their accommodation of the Halfawyeen coming from the north. The scheme was developed in five phases (Alam, 1971: 45) that involved land reclamation with the essential canalization network and development of settlements, spanning the period 1962–69. The first of these phases was devoted to the resettlement of the uprooted Nubian Halfawyeen communities (from Wadi Haifa), while the later ones were directed to beneficaries from the local nomadic groups.
The scheme was founded on the waters of the Khashm el-Girba dam on the River Atbara. Initially it was designed to conserve about 1.3 milliard cubic metres of water, but because of siltation it presently provides about 0.8 milliards. The area targeted for development is 500,000 feddans (one feddan = 1.038 acres), yet about 300,000 feddans are cropped annually. The drop in acreage is mainly due to shortage of irrigation water, inefficiency of the irrigation system, and lack of other basic agricultural inputs; which in totality induced the government to launch the present rehabilitation programme, financed by the World Bank.
The land is divided into tenancies of 15 feddans size, of which 5 are under cotton, 5 under groundnuts, and 5 under wheat in the Halfawyeen-settled part of the scheme, and under dura in the part settled by the nomads.
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- Population and Development Projects in Africa , pp. 272 - 281Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985