Download or read book Politics of Agriculture in Tropical Africa written by Jonathan Barker and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1984-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Markets and States in Tropical Africa written by Robert H. Bates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Politics of Agriculture in Tropical Africa written by Jonathan Barker and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Markets and States in Tropical Africa written by Robert H. Bates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-03-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Markets and States in Tropical Africa written by Robert H. Bates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-04-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Agricultural Commercialization And Government Policy In Africa written by J. Hinderink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Rural Development in Tropical Africa written by Judith Heyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Marketing in Tropical Africa written by H. Laurens van der Laan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Economics of Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa written by Seth La-Anyane and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Agricultural Research in Tropical Africa written by St. George Clerona Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environment and Land Use in Africa written by M. F. Thomas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, the contributors to this volume examine the natural and social environments of selected areas in Africa and study in detail some particular problems and their solutions. Climate, landforms, soils and vegetation are discussed as fundamental aspects of the physical environment. The next section discusses the social and political environment: demography, agricultural systems and the legacies of colonial administration. Case studies in Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Eswatini and Kenya are analysed. The book is aimed at students of African studies, geographers and agriculturalists.
Download or read book Political Settlements and Agricultural Transformation in Africa written by Martin Atela and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which political settlements can contribute to positive changes in Africa’s agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Contemporary Africa has seen many governments, donors, and commercial private enterprises supporting innovative agricultural and agroprocessing schemes with the purpose of diversifying economies. However, many of the schemes collapse or at best fail to generate the needed jobs. Focusing on case studies in Kenya, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines economic analysis, life histories, policy approaches methods, and political economy theory to reframe the field with new questions. The contributors offer alternative explanations for the failure of employment creation schemes in Africa and show how political settlements can bring together stakeholders to settle on win–win approaches to productive employment schemes and inclusive development. Providing new insights on the political economy of agrarian and labour relations in Africa, this book will be of interest to policy actors and development practitioners wishing to support inclusive growth in Africa, as well as to scholars of African politics and economics, public policy, and development.
Download or read book Mechanization and Maize written by Constance G. Anthony and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
Download or read book Summary Report of Food Research Institute Conference on Economic Political and Human Aspects of Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa May 21 and 22 1959 written by Stanford University. Food Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiences with Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa The case studies written by John Charles De Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Development in Africa written by Robert H. Bates and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1980 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on agricultural development and agricultural policy in Africa - discusses historical trends in agricultural product trade, agricultural price, agricultural marketing, cash crop and food production, strategies for small farm development, agricultural taxes, impact of colonialism and interest groups, land tenure, rural development, social stratification, etc.; includes case studies of Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. Bibliography, graphs, maps, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Politics of Tropical Africa written by Richard Hodder-Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging and informative introduction to politics in tropical Africa, first published in 1984, is essential reading to students, businessmen, government officials and economic advisers alike. Situating the contemporary scene firmly in its historical context, which stresses both pre-colonial and colonial heritages, he emphasizes how politicians are constrained by the past, the physical environment and the world’s economy, yet still retain freedom of choice on a wide range of issues. The book is thematically organised and provides both an overview of the general similarities of the continent and also enough detail to flesh out the realities of tribalism and corruption, as well as illustrating the variations that inevitably occur in a continent of sovereign states.
