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Title: | Farmer Organization and Agricultural Policy in Africa |
Authors: | Bratton, Michael Bingen, R. James |
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. |