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| Title: | Development Theory and Reality: The World Bank in Northern Ivory Coast |
| Author: | Bassett, Thomas J. |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 41 |
| Pages: | 45-59 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire |
| Subjects: | agricultural policy food crops cash crops Development and Technology Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248808703762 |
| Abstract: | The 'complementarity thesis' by which the World Bank justifies the continued promotion of commercial crops postulates that food crops will benefit from the inputs, mechanization, services, subsidies and markets provided for a 'commercial lead crop'. The author argues that the thesis - and its opposite, that export crops and food crops must inevitably be in competition - can only be understood in the light of the specific agrarian and political and economic contexts in which such policies are applied. He considers the case of the Cotton Areas Rural Development Project in northern Ivory Coast. Within the context of Ivorian development policies and the involvement of foreign agribusiness, the parastatal CIDT's (Ivorian Company for the Development of Textile Fibres) services discriminate against food crop production. The case study also reveals a variety of social, technical and agroecological constraints hampering the expansion of food crops. In contrast to the World Bank's thesis, the transformation of the farming system is taking place not as a result of a complementarity between food crops and cotton but due to conflicts generated by the uneven development of crops within the farming system. Notes, ref., sum. |
