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Overview"Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. This text, however, highlights the changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organising 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. The editors 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 at the village and household level, chart the complex effects of contract production on the organisation of work and the labour process, rural inequality, gender relations, labour 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 20th century." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter D. Little , Michael WattsPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780299140649ISBN 10: 0299140644 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 30 May 1994 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPeter D. Little is senior research associate at the Institute for Development Anthropology and associate research professor at the State University of New York-Binghamton. Among his books is The Elusive Granary: Herder, Farmer, and State in Northern Kenya. Michael Watts is professor of geography and development studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent and Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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