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Title: | Breaking Up the Bottlenecks in Food-Crop and Cotton Cultivation in Northern Cote d'Ivoire |
Author: | Bassett, Thomas J. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 58 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 147-174 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire |
Subjects: | food crops agricultural workers cotton Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Labor and Employment Development and Technology |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160659 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1988-058-00-000009 |
Abstract: | This article examines how peasants in the Katiali region of northern Côte d'Ivoire are dealing with the problem of labour bottlenecks in a farming system centred on cotton cultivation. It analyses, in particular, the responses of households of different economic standing to peak work periods on three levels: 1) at the level of the labour process, 2) at the level of agricultural practices and 3) in the realm of cultural change. It shows that the development of cotton has entailed major clashes in the scheduling of labour time in the agricultural system of peasant farmers. Attempts to even out labour during bottleneck periods appear to be a major cause of changes in the farming system. The most important changes have occurred in the timing of agricultural activities, cropping patterns, the adoption of labour-saving technology, and the changing politics of 'household' production. It is also argued that this reorganization of agricultural production cannot be reduced to local-level determinants, but must also be linked to the intensification of commodity production through vertical concentration of cotton growers. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in French. |