Rural Communities under Stress: Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa

by Jonathan Barker

• ISBN13: 9780521313582
• ISBN10: 0521313589
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-02-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

African Society Today: Peasant farmers and the state in Africa: Disaster in rural sub-Saharan Africa has become a regular, almost annual event in recent years. In 1985 it was estimated that 10 million Africans left their homes and fields because they were unable to support themselves and that an additional 20 million were reported to be at risk of debilitating hunger.

Table of Contents

Dramas of rural change

Beyond the images of crisis

Changing peasant farms

The making of peasant-farming zones

Markets and power

Communities under stress

Peasant farmers and the 'beginning of politics'

Peasant farmers as citizens

Crisis and opportunity

References

Index

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