Author: John Charles De Wilde
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Research report on agricultural sector and state intervention in agricultural marketing and agricultural price in Africa south of Sahara - discusses shortcomings of the agricultural project approach; includes case studies of Ghana, the Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia; examines availability of land and labour force, climatic influence, price structure, incentives, farmers' attitudes towards price changes, etc.; lists recommendations. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
Author: Ojetunji Aboyade
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780896293045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduction; The incentives system; Some african cases; Toward policy restructuring.
Author: Wallace C. Olsen
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801426773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first of an eight-volume series, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, this book analyzes the trends in the published literature of agricultural economics and rural sociology during the past fifty years. It uses citation analysis and other bibliometric techniques to identify the primary journals, report series, and monographs of current importance to the developed industrial countries as well as those in the Third World.
Author: Ann Willcox Seidman
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780865431324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Elias Mshomba
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781555874438
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mshomba (economics, La Salle University) analyzes the role of international trade in Africa, focusing on four central issues: the trade policies of the sub-Saharan African countries; the impact of GATT and the WTO; the impact of GATT/WTO agreements; and the viability of regional economic integration as a strategy for trade and development. He combines rigorous theoretical analysis with an empirical approach that gives attention to experiences of individual countries and particular institutional settings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Peter D. Little
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780299140649
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organizing peasant agriculture, contract farming promotes production of a wide variety of crops--from flowers to cocoa, from fresh vegetables to rice--under contract to agribusinesses, exporters, and processers. The proliferation of African growers producing under contract is in fact part of broader changes in the global agro-food system. In this examination of agricultural restructuring and its effect upon various African societies, editors Peter Little and Michael Watts bring together anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists to explore the origins, forms, and consequences of contract production in several African countries, particularly Kenya, the Gambia, Zimbabwe, and the Ivory Coast. Documenting how contract production links farmers, agribusiness, and the state, the contributors examine problematic aspects of this method of agrarian reform. Their case studies, based on long-term field work and analysis on the village and household level, chart the complex effects of contract production on the organization of work and the labor process, rural inequality, gender relations, labor markets, local accumulation strategies, and regional development. Living Under Contract reveals that contract farming represents a distinctive form in which African growers are incorporated into national and world markets. Contract production, which has been a central feature of the agricultural landscape in the advanced capitalist states, is an emerging strategy for "capturing peasants" and for confronting the agrarian question in the late twentieth century.