Land, Labour and Entrustment: West African Female Farmers and the Politics of Difference
Pamela Kea
Diverse contractual arrangements and forms of exchange established between smallholder farmers, their households and community work groups, are important to our understanding of processes of agrarian transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, little has been written in this area. Challenging portrayals of West African female farmers as a homogenous group, the present study provides an ethnographic account of the contractual relations established between female hosts and migrants, in the exchange of land and labour for agrarian production in a Gambian community. Further, it demonstrates the way in which, despite the liberalization of the economy, local cultural practices, such as that of entrustment, continue to be of significance in affecting the nature and particular character of agrarian transformation and postcolonial capitalist development.
Năm:
2010
Nhà xuát bản:
BRILL
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
220
ISBN 10:
9004182322
ISBN 13:
9789004182325
Loạt:
African Social Studies Series
File:
PDF, 1.49 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010