Politics Of Agriculture In Tropical Africa
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Author | : Jonathan Barker |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Studies of the economic policy of agricultural development in Africa - looks at its local level, national level and international dimensions; reviews dependence, the farming system and state intervention debates; examines roles of agribusiness, World Bank, role of USA and role of Canada; includes case studies on the Cote d'Ivoire, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Zaire and Zambia. References.
Author | : Robert H. Bates |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520042537 |
Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. "Markets and States in Tropical Africa "analyzes these and other paradoxical features of development in modern Africa and explores how governments have intervened and diverted resources from farmers to other sectors of society. A classic of the field since its publication in 1981, this edition includes a new preface by the author.
Author | : Jonathan Barker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608014999 |
The 1980s have seen the issue of agricultural development take on a new urgency in Africa as agricultural production has gone into decline. The essays in this volume examine the political economy of change in African agriculture by exploring the local, national, and transnational dimensions of the politics of agriculture in historical depth as well as in current situations. The belief is that obstacles to the improvement of the living conditions of low income Africans are found at all three levels of study and that obstacles at different levels may reinforce one another to restrict development. The case studies of countries or institutions presented in this volume share the common task of analyzing the interaction of politics and production in concrete and specific circumstances. Each study explores several aspects of agricultural change: the growing vulnerability of peasant producers to exploitation; the capacity of capital to derive more surplus from agriculture; and the ability of peasants to resist exploitation both politically and economically. The result sheds light on the future for the African economy, rural populations, trade, and growth.
Author | : Robert H. Bates |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2005-03-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780520931961 |
Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. Markets and States in Tropical Africa analyzes these and other paradoxical features of development in modern Africa and explores how governments have intervened and diverted resources from farmers to other sectors of society. A classic of the field since its publication in 1981, this edition includes a new preface by the author.
Author | : Robert H. Bates |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2014-04-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520282566 |
Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s “growth tragedy,” Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic growth on the continent. In this edition, Bates provides a new preface and chapter that address the seeds of Africa’s recovery and discuss the significance of the continent’s success for the arguments of this classic work.
Author | : J. Hinderink |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2022-03-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000448061 |
First published in 1987. The object of this book is to show the nature and the constraints of the commercialization of agriculture in one of the world's major problem areas, Sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural commercialization started here centuries ago, albeit in small, pockets. It expanded sharply during the colonial period when the sub-continent became integrated into the world's economy. After independence the nature of this integration did not structurally change and the basic characteristics o agricultural commercialization remained unaltered. After an analysis of this process during the colonial period, the study focuses on post-colonial government policies and on spatial variation in the commercialization of Africa's agriculture. Differences in environmental and socio-economic conditions, production performance and government policy are dealt with on two geographical scales: in the fist at the level of macro-regions and individual countries, and the second, by means of case studies at the regional, village and project level. Thee field-work based studies each centre on a specific aspect of commercialization process in a wide variety of countries, viz Swaziland, Sudan, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Mali and Kenya. The final part of the book relates the subject of commercialization and rural development to Africa's present agricultural crisis.
Author | : Judith Heyer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1981-06-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 134905318X |
Author | : H. Laurens van der Laan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2018-08-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0429863187 |
First published in 1999, this volume explores how African agriculture has always had a strong appeal for the people of the Netherlands. This is due to (1) a long-established interest in tropical agriculture going back to the days when Indonesia was a Duth colony; (2) a broad-based desire to help the Third World; and (3) the view that Tropical Africa is highly dependent on agriculture. As practical expertise in Africa and systematic research on African agriculture grew, specialization became both possible and necessary. This volume reflects the specialization in marketing which has been welcomed by economists, geographers and scholars of agricultural marketing. In addition to a general introductory chapter, this book includes five contributions on staple food grains, two on export crops, two on cattle and one on horticulture. Nine of the chapters are country-specific, covering Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cȏte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia.
Author | : Seth La-Anyane |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Economic analysis of agricultural development in Africa South of Sahara - examines administrative aspects, technical aspects, institutional framework and economic implications of rural development and modernization in tropical zones; studies economic conditions and agrarian structure (farm size, farming system, land tenure, etc.); discusses the contribution of regional level economic cooperation, regional organizations, the role of EC countries development aid and multinational enterprises. Bibliography, graphs, references, statistical tables.
Author | : St. George Clerona Cooper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |