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Record Nr.

UNISA996248148003316

Autore

Berry Sara

Titolo

No condition is permanent : the social dynamics of agrarian change in sub-Saharan Africa / / Sara Berry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c1993

ISBN

0-299-13933-6

9786612622823

1-282-62282-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 258 p. ) : ill., maps ;

Disciplina

338.1/0967

Soggetti

Agriculture and state - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Rural development - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hegemony on a Shoestring: Indirect Rule and Farmers' Access to Resources -- 3. Inconclusive Encounters: Farmers and States in the Era of Planned Development -- 4. Commercialization, Cultivation, and Capital Formation: Agrarian Change in Four Localities -- 5. Access to Land: Property Rights as Social Process -- 6. Exploitation Without Dispossession: Markets, Networks, and Farmers' Access to Labor -- 7. Investing in Networks: Farmers' Uses of Income and Their Significance for Agrarian Change -- 8. Time Is of the Essence: Intensification, Instability, and Appropriate Technology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.