CiNii Books - Agricultural commercialization and government policy in Africa

First published in 1987. This book is based on an analysis of relevant literature and on the results of field studies carried out over a number of years in Sub-Saharan Africa. These studies were part of a research programme on agricultural commercialization and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, undertaken by the Department of Geography of Developing Countries, University of Utrecht.

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Introduction
Part 1 The Macro View
Chapter 1 The Concept of Agricultural Commercialization and its Role in Development Thinking
Chapter 2 Agricultural Commercialization: the Period Before Independence
Chapter 3 Agricultural Commercialization: the Period After Independence
Chapter 4 Agricultural Production Performance: Long-Term Trends and Present Patterns
Chapter 5 The Aims, the Methods and the Means: Types of Agricultural Development Policy in Selected Countries
Part II The Case Studies
Chapter 6 Spontaneous Commercialization in the Lowveld of Swaziland
Chapter 7 Development From Above: Tenant Farming in Southern Sudan
Chapter 8 Commercialization of Livestock and Differentiation of People in Ngamiland, Botswana
Chapter 9 Commercialization in a Precarious Environment: Cash Cropping in San District, Mali
Chapter 10 Rice Production in Northern Ivory Coast: Divergent Aims and Conflicting Interests
Chapter 11 Commercialization in Kisumu District, Kenya: the Spatial Mosaic
Epilogue: Africa's Agricultural Crisis: Precepts and Prospects

Volume: : pbk ISBN 9780710302397

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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.

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