No Condition Is Permanent The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

Name: No Condition Is Permanent The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
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ISBN: 9780299139346

ISBN-10: 0299139344

ISBN-13: 9780299139346

Edition: 1993

Authors: Sara S. Berry

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“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. 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). The resources available to African farmers have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century. Berry asserts…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 9/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Illustrations


Tables


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Hegemony on a Shoestring: Indirect Rule and Farmers' Access to Resources



Inconclusive Encounters: Farmers and States in the Era of Planned Development



Commercialization, Cultivation, and Capital Formation: Agrarian Change in Four Localities



Access to Land: Property Rights as Social Process



Exploitation Without Dispossession: Markets, Networks, and Farmers' Access to Labor



Investing in Networks: Farmers' Uses of Income and Their Significance for Agrarian Change



Time Is of the Essence: Intensification, Instability, and Appropriate Technology


Notes


Bibliography


Index