ISBN:
0-521-78313-5
,
978-0-521-78313-2
,
0-521-78883-8 /Pbk.
,
978-0-521-78883-0 /Pbk.
ISSN:
0065-406X
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 243 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 101
Keywords:
Westafrika Elfenbeinküste
;
Baumwolle
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Handel
;
Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche
;
Wirtschaftlicher Wandel
;
Geschichte
;
Bauer
;
Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle
Abstract:
The literatur on Africa is dominated by accounts of crisis, doom and gloom, but this book presents one or the few long-running success stories. Thomas Bassett, a distinguished American geographer well known in the field of development, tells an unsusual story of the growth of the cotton economy of West Africa, where change was brought about by tens of thousands of small-scale peasants farmers. While the introduction of new strains of cotton in francophone West Africa was in part the result of agronomic research by French scientists, supported by an unusually efficient marketing structure, this is not a case of triumphant top-down "plantification". Employing the case of Côte d'Ivoire, Professor Bassett shows agricultural intensification to result from the cumulative effect of decades of incremental changes in farming techniques and social organization. A significant contribution of the literature, the book demonstrated the need to consider the local and temporal dimension of agricultural innovations. It brings into question many key assumptions that have influenced develpoment policies during the twentieth century. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction. Cotton and the discourse of development. Defining and explaining agricultural revolutions. The interplay of induced and directed innovations. Agricultural development and agrarian politics. Research site. Research methods. The general argument and organization of the book -- 2 The collision of empires, 1880-1911. European accounts of pre-colonial northern Cote d'lvoire. African cotton. The Korhogo region on the eve of colonization. Redrawing the map -- 3 The uncaptured corvee, 1912-1946. The "disguised corvee". The parallel cotton market. The push for cotton exports. The decline of cotton -- 4 Repackaging cotton, 1947-1963. The discipline of the market. Institutional and organizational reforms . Migrant labor and the "climate of freedom". The CFDT system -- 5 Making cotton work, 1964-1984. The data behind the cotton revolution. Labor bottlenecks and agricultural change. Population and labor constraints. Labor bottleneck periods . Farmer adjustments to labor bottlenecks -- 6 "To sow or not to sow": the extensification of cotton, gender politics, and rural mobilization, 1985-1995. The erosion of farmer incomes. The extensification of cotton . Contested cropping. Managing debt. The cooperative movement. Striking cotton markets. The end of modernization. Crop diversification. Cooperative turns -- 7 Conclusion. Closing the price gap: parallel markets and the origins of the CFDT system. Making cotton work: locally induced innovations. The landscape of change. Made of peasant cotton -- Appendix 1: Cote d'lvoire seed cotton production, 1912-1998 -- Notes -- Bibliography
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-233
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