The concept of innovation and the history of cocoa farming in Western Nigeria

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Title:	The concept of innovation and the history of cocoa farming in Western Nigeria
Author:	Berry, Sara S.
Year:	1974
Periodical:	The Journal of African History
Volume:	15
Issue:	1
Pages:	83-95
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	cocoa farmers internal migration
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/180371
Abstract:	The history of cocoa production in Western Nigeria is an example of a successful innovation in the Schumpeterian sense of the term. Migrant farmers, many of whom relied on traditional, non-economic institutions (lineage; ethnic community) mobilized the economic resources to establish cocoa farms. The examination of the activities of migrant farmers in the Yoruba states Ibadan, Ife and Ondo shows that the spread of cocoa farming probably strengthened the traditional institutions and, at the same time, effected significant changes in the volume, organization and geographical distribution of rural economic activity in Western Nigeria. Notes, summary.