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Title:Farmer Organization and Agricultural Policy in Africa
Authors:Bratton, MichaelISNI
Bingen, R. JamesISNI
Year:1994
Periodical:African Rural and Urban Studies
Volume:1
Issue:1
Pages:7-29
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Africa
Subjects:farmers' associations
agricultural policy
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Politics and Government
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
Abstract:This paper is an introduction to the case studies presented in this issue of African Rural and Urban Studies. The case studies address the question of the role farmer organizations and other rural groups play in assuring that more favourable agricultural policies will be part of the new democratic future of Africa. The studies report on the field research conducted by the African country teams (Mali, Senegal, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe) of the RGAPA (Research Group on Agricultural Politics in Africa), a group convened in 1989 to design a research and action project to study the role of farmer organizations in agricultural policy in Africa. The paper presents the RGAPA project's research questions, which concerned the characteristics of farmer organizations, their activities, their policy advocacy strategies, and the assessment of success or failure at policy advocacy, and summarizes the research findings. Finally, it discusses conceptual and practical lessons learned from the project. Bibliogr., notes.
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