African Agrarian Systems
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African Agrarian Systems
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Author : Daniel Biebuyck
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-08-16
African Agrarian Systems written by Daniel Biebuyck and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-16 with Social Science categories.
Originally published in 1963 this volume surveys various aspects of the complex relations between rights in land, social organization and economic interests in tropical Africa. The papers - in English and French but with summaries in the other language - analyse case studies illustrating the various basic factors and problems connected with land in Tropical Africa. Indigenous systems of tenure and their adaptation to commercial agriculture, the balance between rights and obligations of groups and individuals, and the authority and duties of chiefs and headmen are discussed in detail for many different areas. Against this background important contributions are made towards the better understanding of problems raised by economic and political development, population increase, migration and scarcity of land.
Land In African Agrarian Systems
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Author : Thomas J. Bassett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Land In African Agrarian Systems written by Thomas J. Bassett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Business & Economics categories.
Land in African Agrarian Systems argues that proposals for sweeping changes in African agricultural land tenure are misconceived. Colonial administrators, African elites, and foreign aid donors have historically viewed the variety of indigenous landholding systems as obstacles to increased agricultural production and to economic progress in general, believing that only private land ownership will provide the investment security necessary for agricultural efficiency. This volume contends that privatisation is not the panacea for Africa's agrarian ills, and that any solutions must take into account critical social dynamics that influence how productive resources are acquired, used, contested and underutilised.
African Agrarian Systems
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Author : Daniel P. Biebuyck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
African Agrarian Systems written by Daniel P. Biebuyck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Agriculture categories.
African Agrarian Systems
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language : en
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Release Date : 1963
African Agrarian Systems written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Land tenure categories.
No Condition Is Permanent
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Author : Sara S. Berry
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1993-09-15
No Condition Is Permanent written by Sara S. Berry and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-15 with History categories.
“No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry’s theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book explores the complex way African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labor, offering a comparative study of agrarian change in four rural economies in sub-Saharan Africa, including two that experienced long periods of expanding peasant production for export (southern Ghana and southwestern Nigeria), a settler economy (central Kenya), and a rural labor reserve (northeastern Zambia). The resources available to African farmers have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century. Berry asserts that the ways resources are acquired and used are shaped not only by the incorporation of a rural area into colonial (later national) and global political economies, but also by conflicts over culture, power, and property within and beyond rural communities. By tracing the various debates over rights to resources and their effects on agricultural production and farmers’ uses of income, Berry presents agrarian change as a series of on-going processes rather than a set of discrete “successes” and “failures.” No Condition Is Permanent enriches the discussion of agrarian development by showing how multidisciplinary studies of local agrarian history can constructively contribute to development policy. The book is a contribution both to African agrarian history and to debates over the role of agriculture in Africa’s recent economic crises.
Agro Ecological Intensification Of Agricultural Systems In The African Highlands
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Author : Bernard Vanlauwe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-17
Agro Ecological Intensification Of Agricultural Systems In The African Highlands written by Bernard Vanlauwe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
There is an urgent need to increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa in a sustainable and economically-viable manner. Transforming risk-averse smallholders into business-oriented producers that invest in producing surplus food for sale provides a formidable challenge, both from a technological and socio-political perspective. This book addresses the issue of agricultural intensification in the humid highland areas of Africa – regions with relatively good agricultural potential, but where the scarce land resources are increasingly under pressure from the growing population and from climate change. In addition to introductory and synthesis chapters, the book focuses on four themes: system components required for agricultural intensification; the integration of components at the system level; drivers for adoption of technologies towards intensification; and the dissemination of complex knowledge. It provides case studies of improved crop and soil management for staple crops such as cassava and bananas, as well as examples of how the livelihoods of rural people can be improved. The book provides a valuable resource for researchers, development actors, students and policy makers in agricultural systems and economics and in international development. It highlights and addresses key challenges and opportunities that exist for sustainable agricultural intensification in the humid highlands of sub-Saharan Africa.
Living Under Contract
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Author : Peter D. Little
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1994
Living Under Contract written by Peter D. Little and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Agricultural contracts categories.
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.
African Agrarian Systems Studies Presented And Discussed At The Second International African Seminar Lovanium University Leopoldville January 1960
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language : en
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Release Date : 1963
African Agrarian Systems Studies Presented And Discussed At The Second International African Seminar Lovanium University Leopoldville January 1960 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Changing Agricultural Systems In Africa
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Author : Emilio F. Moran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Changing Agricultural Systems In Africa written by Emilio F. Moran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Agricultural systems categories.
Changes In Land Tenure Systems And Poverty Alleviation In Africa
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Author : Kodwo Ewusi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Changes In Land Tenure Systems And Poverty Alleviation In Africa written by Kodwo Ewusi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Land tenure categories.