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<p>“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.&nbsp; 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).&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The resources available to African farmers have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century.&nbsp; Berry asserts that the ways resources are acquired and used are shaped not only by&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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 proce

Author

Sara S Berry; Sara Berry

Publisher

The University of Wisconsin Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299139308

Subjects

Agriculture, History, Management