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<p>Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. <i>Living Under Contract</i>, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 cont

Author

Peter D. Little and Michael J. Watts

Publisher

Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299140649

Subjects

Economics, Management, Technology