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Title: | African Agriculture: The Next Twenty-Five Years: Old Problems, Old Solutions and Scientific Foibles |
Author: | Mafeje, Archie |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 5-34 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | agricultural crisis agricultural policy Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486607 |
Abstract: | In discussing the present agricultural crisis, the instinctive reaction of experts and their sponsors is to check into which Eurocentric mold, capitalist or socialist, recommendations might fall. Yet, it is in agriculture that different cultural traditions and modes of organization are most likely to manifest themselves. This reservation about the experts' opinions is illustrated by a systematic review of the FAO report 'African agriculture: the next 25 years' (1986). Special attention is paid to the following aspects: price policies and subsidies, trade and competitiveness, technology and multinationals, land and land tenure, local institutions and popular participation, women and agricultural development, and labour and wages. Many unanswered questions and contrary deductions are found, marking the limits and foibles of bureaucratic and abstract social science, which is part of the craft of international experts. Bibliogr., sum. in French. |