No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

274 Pages·1993·10.79 MB·English

by  Sara Berry

No Condition Is Pemulnent

No Condition
Is Permanent
THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS
OF AGRARIAN CHANGE
IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Sara Berry
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
The University of Wisconsin Press
114 North Murray Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53715
3 Henrietta Street
London WC2E 8LU, England
Copyright © 1993
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
All rights reserved
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Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Berry, Sara.
No condition is permanent: the social dynamics of agrarian change
in sub-Saharan Africa I Sara Berry.
272p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-299-13930-1 ISBN 0-299-13934-4
1. Agriculture-Economic aspects-Africa, Sub-Saharan.
2. Rural development-Africa, Sub-Saharan. 3. Agriculture and state-
Africa, Sub-Saharan. I. Title.
HD21l7.B46 1993
338.1' 0967-dc20 93-7102
Dedicated to
the African Studies Community
at Boston University
1975-1991
with gratitude and affection

Contents
Illustrations ix
Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Introduction 3
2. Hegemony on a Shoestring: Indirect Rule and Farmers'
Access to Resources 22
3. Inconclusive Encounters: Farmers and States in the Era
of Planned Development 43
4. Commercialization, Cultivation, and Capital Formation:
Agrarian Change in Four Localities 67
5. Access to Land: Property Rights as Social Process 101
6. Exploitation Without Dispossession: Markets, Networks,
and Farmers' Access to Labor 135
7. Investing in Networks: Farmers' Uses of Income and
Their Significance for Agrarian Change 159
8. Time Is of the Essence: Intensification, Instability, and
Appropriate Technology 181
Notes 205
Bibliography 219
Index 253
vii

Illustrations
MAPS
1. Location of case study areas 7
2. Cocoa farming areas of Ghana 69
3. Cocoa farming areas of Nigeria 70
4. Central Province, Kenya 79
5. The White Highlands 80
6. Northeastern Zambia 89
FIGURE
1. Production of cocoa in Ghana and Nigeria, 1902-1989 71
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