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Rethinking African Agriculture: How Non-Agrarian Factors Shape Peasant Livelihoods

Rethinking African Agriculture: How Non-Agrarian Factors Shape Peasant Livelihoods

Hyden, Goran
Sugimura, Kazuhiko
Tsuruta, Tadasu

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138610607
ISBN13: 9781138610606
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 21 2020
Pages: 190
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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