Description
Book SynopsisFirst 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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;
