Agricultural Commercialization And Government Policy In Africa

First published in 1987. This book is based on an analysis of relevant literature and on the results of field studies carried out over a number of years in Sub-Saharan Africa. These studies were part of a research programme on agricultural commercialization and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, undertaken by the Department of Geography of Developing Countries, University of Utrecht.

Introduction; Part 1 The Macro View; Chapter 1 The Concept of Agricultural Commercialization and its Role in Development Thinking; Chapter 2 Agricultural Commercialization: the Period Before Independence; Chapter 3 Agricultural Commercialization: the Period After Independence; Chapter 4 Agricultural Production Performance: Long-Term Trends and Present Patterns; Chapter 5 The Aims, the Methods and the Means: Types of Agricultural Development Policy in Selected Countries; Part II The Case Studies; Chapter 6 Spontaneous Commercialization in the Lowveld of Swaziland; Chapter 7 Development From Above: Tenant Farming in Southern Sudan; Chapter 8 Commercialization of Livestock and Differentiation of People in Ngamiland, Botswana; Chapter 9 Commercialization in a Precarious Environment: Cash Cropping in San District, Mali; Chapter 10 Rice Production in Northern Ivory Coast: Divergent Aims and Conflicting Interests; Chapter 11 Commercialization in Kisumu District, Kenya: the Spatial Mosaic; Epilogue: Africa’s Agricultural Crisis: Precepts and Prospects;

J.J. Hinderink, J.J. Sterkenburg