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| Title: | Female Farming and the Evolution of Food Production Patterns amongst the Beti of South-Central Cameroon |
| Author: | Guyer, Jane I. |
| Year: | 1980 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
| Volume: | 50 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 341-356 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Cameroon |
| Subjects: | Beti women's work food production Women's Issues Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1158427 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1980-050-00-000025 |
| Abstract: | Through an ethnographic study of a food production system, the present case study of farming amongst the Beti people of Southern Cameroon focusses on the impact of the cash crop economy on farming practices. Both the continuities and the changes in the system are related to the way in which the Beti division of labour by sex has adjusted to the cash-cropping of cocoa. Cocoa cultivation has altered the relationship of population to the land available for food farming; it has also made farmers' incomes far more dependent on market prices than in the past. But the way in which agricultural practice has adjusted to both sets of pressures is a function of adjustments in indigenous social organisation. The first part of the paper reconstructs the Beti food economy as it functioned before the penetration of the colonial economy. The second part documents changes which have taken place using published studies, and fieldwork data (1975/77) from two Eton villages. Fig., map, notes, ref., sum in French. |
