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| Title: | Cash Crops versus Food Crops in Africa: A Conflict between Dependency and Autonomy |
| Authors: | Darkoh, Michael B.K. Ould-Mey, Mohamed |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Periodical: | Transafrican Journal of History |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Pages: | 36-50 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | development cash crops international trade food crops Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade Agriculture, Agronomy, Forestry crops agricultural development |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24520419 |
| Abstract: | The development history of cash crops in Africa over the last few decades shows that cash crops have produced less and less cash. Over the last three decades, real incomes from cash crops have declined. African shares in world markets of most commodities have worsened, and most African countries have been sinking deeper and deeper into debt. This paper explores the conflict between cash crops for export and food crops for self-reliance. It sees the conflict as one between two approaches to development, that is, between dependency and autonomy, between the diffusionist approach which takes the form of the 'export-led growth model' of development and the 'autocentric approach' which emphasizes food self-sufficiency. The conclusion reached is that the former is untenable, given its current socioeconomic repercussions. Only the food self-sufficiency model will restore Africa's economic as well as political independence and self-reliance which is so central to a future of freedom from hunger and starvation. Bibliogr., sum. |
