Rethinking African Agriculture - How Non-Agrarian Factors Shape Peasant Livelihoods (Paperback)

Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation. This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely unknown Japanese research on the subject. The ethnographic fieldwork focuses not only on the micro environment of the producers but also the broader historical context in which they live and work. The contributors argue that, in comparison with other regions of the world, Africa has never passed through an agrarian revolution that would effectively change the mode of production from within. Modernization efforts from the outside have fallen far short of the ambition to transform agriculture in Africa. Rural Africa is still largely a natural society characterized by "non-agrarian" features as evident in people’s livelihood, social organization, and farming systems. This book will be of interest to social scientists and anthropologists focusing on African development, agriculture and agrarian societies,

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Contemporary Africa
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2020
Editors:	Goran Hyden • Kazuhiko Sugimura • Tadasu Tsuruta
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	190
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-51352-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies
LSN:	0-367-51352-8
Barcode:	9780367513528

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