| Abstract: | Text in Portuguese. With the crisis of African agriculture in the seventies has come an overestimation of the importance of the role of agricultural prices in the development of agricultural production. The author criticizes this 'economist' position on two accounts. Firstly, it neglects the social reality of a substantial part of the Third World by reducing rural society to the 'agricultural sector of the economy', vaguely defined as 'traditional' and 'uncontrollable', as opposed to the industrial sector, both 'modern' and 'planned'. The 'unknown world' of African rural society must be discovered and attention paid to the historical, social and political conditions specific to its integration into the market economy. In this perspective the analysis of the causes of the African agricultural crisis and the elaboration of realistic strategies to combat it extend far beyond the limits of a purely economist analysis and a market logic. Notes, sum. in French. |
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