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Rethinking African Agriculture: How Non-Agrarian Factors Shape Peasant Livelihoods book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking African Agriculture How Non-Agrarian Factors Shape Peasant Livelihoods

Edited By Goran Hyden, Kazuhiko Sugimura, Tadasu Tsuruta Copyright 2020
198 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation. This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely unknown Japanese research on the subject. The ethnographic fieldwork focuses not only on the micro... Read more

1. Peasant Agriculture in Africa:  Science meets History

Goran Hyden

2.  Missing out on the Agrarian Revolution: African Peasantry in Historical Perspective

Tadasu Tsuruta

3. Economy of Affection in Africa: The Informal Basis of Development

Goran Hyden

4. Farming Practices among African Hunter-Gatherers: Diversifying without Loss of the Past

Haruna Yatsuka and Kazunobu Ikeya

5. Shifting Cultivators as Generalist Managers: The Threat of ‘Saving the Rain Forest’

Kenta Sakanashi, Kazuhiko Sugimura and Tadasu Tsuruta

6.  Unique Features of African Agro-pastoralism: Adapting Life and Sharing Wealth in Fluid Environment

Yuichiro Fujioka, Yudai Ishimoto and Tadasu Tsuruta

7.  Food Sharing among Commercial Rice Growers: Persistence of the Subsistence Ethic in Kenya

Noriko Ito and Tadasu Tsuruta

8.  Longstanding Imprints of Natural Society: Towards a New Science of Agriculture in Africa

Kazuhiko Sugimura

9. Making Innovations Socially Inclusive: Lessons from the Bemba in Zambia

Yuko Sugiyama

10. General Conclusions: Implications for Research and Policy

Goran Hyden, Kazuhiko Sugimura and Tadasu Tsuruta

Biography

Goran Hyden is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science, University of Florida, USA.

Kazuhiko Sugimura is a Professor at the Center of Arts and Sciences at Fukui Prefectural University, Japan.

Tadasu Tsuruta is a Professor in rhe Faculty of Agriculture at Kindai University, Japan.

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