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Title:The Political Economy of the Maize Filiere
Author:Bernstein, HenryISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:The Journal of Peasant Studies
Volume:23
Issue:2-3
Period:January-April
Pages:120-145
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:political economy
marketing
maize
Politics and Government
Economics and Trade
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03066159608438610
Abstract:This paper examines the commodity chain of maize and its regulation in South Africa. It first introduces the method of 'filières vivrières' (food commodity chains) as a useful approach to investigating the interconnected activities, agents and dynamics of the maize sector in South Africa. A political economy of maize is proposed in relation to the maize boom of the 1960s and 1970s, and the growing pressures on maize farming subsequently. This political economy links the analysis of class forces and forms of capital to that of specific institutional mechanisms of regulation (in its broad sense). It concludes that 'deregulation', in the narrow (and misconceived) sense of market liberalization, is inadequate to restructure the maize industry to meet the needs of a democratic South Africa, including that of food security in conditions of widespread poverty, both rural and urban. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. (p. 303).
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