Rural Communities under Stress - Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa

African Society Today: Peasant farmers and the state in Africa: Disaster in rural sub-Saharan Africa has become a regular, almost annual event in recent years. In 1985 it was estimated that 10 million Africans left their homes and fields because they were unable to support themselves and that an additional 20 million were reported to be at risk of debilitating hunger.

List of contents

1. Dramas of rural change; 2. Beyond the images of crisis; 3. Changing peasant farms; 4. The making of peasant-farming zones; 5. Markets and power; 6. Communities under stress; 7. Peasant farmers and the 'beginning of politics'; 8. Peasant farmers as citizens; 9. Crisis and opportunity; References; Index.

Summary

This 1990 text goes behind the crises of famine and poor agricultural production to examine the forces and pressures that can affect peasant farming communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the book shows that peasant farmers have ways of defending their interests.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Barker
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1990
• EAN: 9780521313582
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31358-2
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: African Society Today; African Society Today
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Africa, Political Economy