Agricultural commercialization and government policy in Africa

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Title:	Agricultural commercialization and government policy in Africa
Authors:	Hinderink, J. Sterkenburg, J.J.
Year:	1987
Pages:	328
Language:	English
Series:	Monographs from the African Studies Centre
City of publisher:	London; New York
Publisher:	KPI
ISBN:	0710302053; 0710302398
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	agricultural development agricultural policy cash crops
Abstract:	This study shows the nature and the constraints of the commercialization of agriculture in one of the world's major problem areas, sub-Saharan Africa. After an analysis of the process of agricultural commercialization during the colonial period, it focuses on postcolonial government policies and on the spatial variation in the commercialization of Africa's agriculture. Differences in environmental and socioeconomic conditions, production performance and government policy are dealt with on two geographical scales: at the level of macroregions and individual countries, and by means of case studies at the regional, village and project level. The fieldwork-based studies each centre on a specific aspect of the commercialization process in, respectively, Swaziland, Sudan, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Mali and Kenya. The final part of the book relates the subject of commercialization and rural development to Africa's present agricultural crisis.