Living Under Contract

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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.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Peter D. Little
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release : 1994
File : 324 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0299140644


Making A Living

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Livelihoods in rural Africa are changing in response to disappearing job prospects, falling agricultural output and collapsing infrastructure. This book explains why the responses to these challenges are so different in different parts of Africa. Making a Living uses case studies from commercial farming regions in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and from much poorer areas within eastern and southern Africa.to give a broad comparative study of rural livelihoods. These case studies reveal how household relations, poverty and gender all play a part in the changing political economy of rural Africa.

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Genre : Science
Author : Elizabeth Francis
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-05-20
File : 236 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134686216


Cost Of Living Adjustments In Star Route Contract Prices

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Genre : Star routes
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations
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Release : 1965
File : 36 Pages
ISBN-13 : LOC:00184036228


Speeches Addresses And Letters On Industrial And Financial Questions To Which Is Added An Introduction Together With Copious Notes Etc

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Genre :
Author : William Darrah KELLEY
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Release : 1872
File : 574 Pages
ISBN-13 : BL:A0021974586


A Treatise On The Law Of Quasi Contracts

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Genre : Contracts
Author : William Albert Keener
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Release : 1893
File : 510 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105062195651


Culture Agriculture

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Genre : Agricultural development projects
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Release : 2001
File : 412 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCLA:L0100010230


Reports Of Proceedings

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Genre : Boston (Mass.)
Author : Boston (Mass.). City Council
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Release : 1893
File : 1370 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015077090697


Living In Awe

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Genre : California
Author : Maude Fay Symington
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Release : 1968
File : 200 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105129637844


Reports Of Cases At Common Law And In Chancery Argued And Determined In The Supreme Court Of The State Of Illinois By S Breese And Others

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Author : Illinois. Supreme Court
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Release : 1879
File : 732 Pages
ISBN-13 : BL:A0026624095


Economic Report Of The President

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Genre : United States
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
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Release : 1967
File : 1180 Pages
ISBN-13 : OSU:32437011019763