Download or read book Peasants in Africa written by Martin A. Klein and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on subsistence farming and social change among small farmers and tenant farmers in Africa - includes historical account of the peasantry under colonialism and examines rural area social stratification, agricultural production according to social system, impact of land tenure and export-oriented commercial farming, rural women, state intervention and peasant movements, etc. Maps and references.
Download or read book Peasant Organizations in Africa written by Dessalegn Rahmato and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peasant Organisations and the Democratisation Process in Africa written by Mahmoud Ben Romdhane and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a collection of 13 papers on rural peasant organisations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Kenya, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
Download or read book Peasants in Africa written by Alan K. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Communities Under Stress written by Jonathan Barker and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Society Today: Peasant farmers and the state in Africa: Disaster in rural sub-Saharan Africa has become a regular, almost annual event in recent years. In 1985 it was estimated that 10 million Africans left their homes and fields because they were unable to support themselves and that an additional 20 million were reported to be at risk of debilitating hunger.
Download or read book PEASANT FARMER ORGANIZATION IN FERMER FIRST AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CONTINUING CONSTRAINTS written by PETER GUBBELS and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organisations paysannes et rurales written by Daouda Diagne and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resistance to Modernization in Africa written by Giordano Sivini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giordano Sivini has been an international aid consultant for over twenty-five years. Here he channels a 1960s and 1970s idealistic political commitment into fieldwork and the sphere of development from the 1980s to the present. Sivini writes with both passion and cynicism about his experiences with the numerous African aid projects he has been involved with over the years.While the fathers of independence of British and French decolonization wanted to change the colonial conditions of exploitation, Sivini finds that their good intentions have been shipwrecked. Ironically, the longer Sivini served as an aid consultant, the more he found himself dismayed at the various projects that were under way or slated to begin. He perceived some of the projects as grotesque, and, almost all ineffective. The money was wasted on such ventures not because of a particular government's interest in the social effects they would have on the local populace, but because of the direct and indirect benefits the government would receive.Sivini sees international development aid as its own market: development is a commodity that takes the form of large and small projects, and is traded for loans and gifts to generate political and economic advantages for the institutional participants in the exchange. Ultimately, governmental and aid projects often stimulate resistance from the local populace as agencies upset their usual system of production by regimenting peasants to produce for the market, then appropriate the cattle of nomadic pastoralists, villagizing and resettling peasants in areas of high productivity, and exploiting laborers in large farms. This creates social disintegration, mass migration in urban informal economy, and poverty.This is a dynamic and moving analysis of foreign aid that will be of interest to students of African studies, governmental programs, rural development, and political economy.
Download or read book Modernizing Peasant Societies written by Guy Hunter and published by London ; New York : Published for the Institute of Race Relations [by] Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison of rural development in African and Asian countries, with particular reference to Innovation in agriculture - covers agricultural policy, the social structure, traditional cultivation techniques, rural workers (incl. Tenant farmers and landowners), agrarian reforms, rural cooperatives (incl. Credit cooperatives and marketing cooperatives), administrative aspects, political aspects, educational needs, international cooperation, trade, etc. References and statistical tables.
Download or read book Peasants and Rural Organizations PRDs written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking African Agriculture written by Goran Hyden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation. This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely unknown Japanese research on the subject. The ethnographic fieldwork focuses not only on the micro environment of the producers but also the broader historical context in which they live and work. The contributors argue that, in comparison with other regions of the world, Africa has never passed through an agrarian revolution that would effectively change the mode of production from within. Modernization efforts from the outside have fallen far short of the ambition to transform agriculture in Africa. Rural Africa is still largely a natural society characterized by "non-agrarian" features as evident in people’s livelihood, social organization, and farming systems. This book will be of interest to social scientists and anthropologists focusing on African development, agriculture and agrarian societies,
Download or read book Peasant Farmer Organization in Farmer first Agricultural Development in West Africa written by Peter A. Gubbels and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reclaiming the Land written by Sam Moyo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state. This volume brings together for the first time across three continents - Africa, Latin America and Asia - an intellectually consistent set of original investigations into this new generation of rural social movements. These country studies seek to identify their social composition, strategies, tactics, and ideologies; to assess their relations with other social actors, including political parties, urban social movements, and international aid agencies and other institutions; and to examine their most common tactic, the land occupation, its origins, pace and patterns, as well as the responses of governments and landowners. At a more fundamental level, this volume explores the ways in which two decades of neoliberal policy - including new land tenure arrangements intended to hasten the commodification of land, and new land uses linked to global markets -- have undermined the social reproduction of the rural labour force and created the conditions for popular resistance. The volume demonstrates the longer-term potential impact of these movements. In economic terms, they raise the possibility of tackling immiseration by means of the redistribution of land and the reorganisation of production on a more efficient and socially responsible basis. And in political terms, breaking the power of landowners and transnational capital with interests in land could ultimately open the way to an alternative pattern of capital accumulation and development.
Download or read book The Politics of Peasant Groups in Western Nigeria written by Christopher Beer and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monographic overview and assessment of the politics of peasant movements in Western Nigeria - includes cooperatives, farmers' associations and trade unions, and populist movements, and examines functions, institutional frameworks, leadership, political behaviour, the growth of political party control, etc. Select bibliography pp. 256 to 263, maps, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book Three Essays on Peasant Organizations in West Africa written by Tanguy Bernard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette thèse analyse l'émergence, le fonctionnement et le rôle des Organisations Paysannes (OP)dans le développement rural en Afrique de l'Ouest, sur la base de données collectées au Sénégal et au Burkina Faso en 2002-2003. Ces organisations sont des groupes d'individus, se rassemblant pour améliorer le bien-être de leurs ménages et celui de leurs communautés. Elles se sont développées de manière importante depuis le milieu des années 1980, suite au désangagement des Etats du secteur rural, et sont maintenant présentes dans la grande majorité des villages. Cependant, malgré cette richesse organisationnelle et l'intérêt croissant des agences de développement pour les OP, la pauvreté rurale en Afrique de l'Ouest reste parmi les plus élevées du monde. Notre analyse suggère que les OP représentent un canal majeur pour atteindre les ménages pauvres ruraux, mais que leur impact sur la pauvreté est en général limité par leur manque de ressources financières. Nous montrons également que les communautés villageoises dans lesquelles les OP évoluent sont de première importance : dans les environnements caractérisés par d'importantes "normes égalitaires", les OP dont la fonction est de générer des profits pour leurs membres sont contraintes lors de leur émergence et dans leur fonctionnement. En retour, l'émergence de telles organisations influence leurs communautés en provoquant un changement institutionnel par lequel la différentiation économique et sociale des individus est rendue possible au sein même de leur communauté.
Download or read book Co operatives as Developmental Organizations for Peasant Agriculture in South Africa written by Henry Clive Chawane and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements written by Marc Edelman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The prayers of those of us who have long hungered for a comprehensive, historically deep, learned and accessible account of international agrarian movements have finally been answered in full. We will long be in debt to Edelman and Borras for this exceptional and lasting contribution to agrarian scholarship." - James C. Scott, founding Director, Yale University Agrarian Studies Program, author of The Art of Not Being Governed
