Living under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming.\ 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...
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Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. Booknews Contract farming is defined as arrangements between a grower and firm(s) (e.g., exporters, processors, retail outlets, or shippers) in which nontransferable contracts specify one or more conditions of marketing and production. Although the volume focuses on the genesis, growth, and form of contract farming in sub-Saharan Africa, the contributions also shed light on the contemporary processes of agrarian restructuring at the global level, and on contract farming more generally. The approach seeks to situate diverse contracting arrangements with respect to local conditions and global structures. Paper edition (14064-4), $27.50. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Maps and FiguresTablesPrefaceContributorsAbbreviationsIntroduction31Life under Contract: Contract Farming, Agrarian Restructuring, and Flexible Accumulation212The Moral Economy of the Contract783Contract Farming in the Shadow of Competitive Markets: The Experience of Kenyan Horticulture974Contract Farming in Zimbabwe: Case Studies of Sugar, Tea, and Cotton1405Contracting a Food Staple in The Gambia1676Contract Farming and Palm Oil Production in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana1887Contract Farming and the Development Question216Epilogue: Contracting, Social Labor, and Agrarian Transitions248References261Index287
\ BooknewsContract farming is defined as arrangements between a grower and firm(s) (e.g., exporters, processors, retail outlets, or shippers) in which nontransferable contracts specify one or more conditions of marketing and production. Although the volume focuses on the genesis, growth, and form of contract farming in sub-Saharan Africa, the contributions also shed light on the contemporary processes of agrarian restructuring at the global level, and on contract farming more generally. The approach seeks to situate diverse contracting arrangements with respect to local conditions and global structures. Paper edition (14064-4), $27.50. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
