| Abstract: | Renk district has the largest mechanized rainfed agricultural scheme in southern Sudan. At weeding and harvesting times, it attracts a large number of seasonal migrants from the district and adjoining areas. The author traces the relationship between this seasonal labour mobility and the local subsistence economy. Observations made in April 1983 and 1984 suggest that land is scarce both for grazing and subsistence cultivation. 'Traditional farmers' are being reduced to landless peasants who have to depend for their subsistence on selling their labour to the schemes, while the wages paid in the schemes are insufficient to cover the reproduction costs of labour in the subsistence economy. The traditional economy of the local population has been disarticulated at two levels: by eliminating the process of simple reproduction at the level of the productive system as a whole, and by increasing the burden on women and old persons in agriculture. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
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