Crisis and Change in African Agriculture: A Comparative Study of the Ivory Coast and Nigeria

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Title:	Crisis and Change in African Agriculture: A Comparative Study of the Ivory Coast and Nigeria
Authors:	Watts, Michael J. Bassett, Thomas J.
Year:	1985
Periodical:	African Studies Review
Volume:	28
Issue:	4
Period:	December
Pages:	3-27
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire Nigeria
Subjects:	agricultural development agricultural policy Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government Economics and Trade
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/524521
Abstract:	Examination of the genesis and patterns of agrarian change through a comparative study of two West African states - Nigeria and the Ivory Coast - over the period 1960-1980. The analysis rests upon two conceptual supports provided by the French regulationist school': the regime of accumulation and the mode of regulation. The authors argue that Nigeria and the Ivory Coast are constituted by different regimes of accumulation - respectively, peripheral fordism associated with oil-based accumulation, and disarticulated accumulation associated with export-led agro-industrial development - and contrasting modes of regulation and state intervention. In the case of the Ivory Coast, the state's ability to extract and redistribute resources has been greatly facilitated by a repressive Bonapartist state. The Nigerian state, conversely, rests on heterogeneous propertied classes fractured by regional, ethnic, and class divisions. Bibliogr., notes.