Africa Projected pp 151-169 | Cite as
The Future of Food and Agriculture, or the ‘Greening of Africa’-Crisis Projections and Policies
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‘Two generations ago, the banana was a luxury; oranges were seasonal fruit only; the use of tobacco was far less; a century ago tea and coffee were luxuries for the rich alone, and cocoa unknown. Today, bananas, oranges all year round, tea, coffee and cocoa in the humblest domestic budget in North America and Great Britain… Man and beast are fed increasingly from tropical countries. Industry demands rubber in quantities undreamed of 30 years ago, and other “colonial” raw materials are increasingly in great demand.’ — Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1932)2
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Food Production African State Food Crisis Staple Food Import Rural Economic Development
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- 1.Dr M. S. Swaminathan, ‘Agricultural Progress — Key to Third World Prosperity’, Third World Quarterly, 5 (3) July 1983, 553.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- 3.See Harvey K. Flad, ‘Africa and the Problems and Paradoxes of Food Production and Distribution’, in Robert W. Brown et al, Africa and International Crisis ( Syracuse: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1976 ) 59.Google Scholar
- See also Colin Leys, ‘African Economic Development in Theory and Practice’, Daedalus, 3 (2) Spring 1982, 99–124.Google Scholar
- 4.Bob Shenton and J. P. Olinger, ‘Decoionisation and the West African Peasantry’, Centre for African Studies (Dalhousie University, 1981 ).Google Scholar
- 5.For further elaboration on this interrelatedness of food problems, coups and diplomatic weakness, see Carl K. Eicher, ‘Facing Up to Africa’s Food Crisis’, Foreign Affairs, 61 (1) Fall 1982, 151–74.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- See also Emmanuel Hansen, ‘Public Policy and the Food Question in Ghana’, Africa Development, 6 (3) July-September 1982, 99–115Google Scholar
- and Okello Oculi, ‘Food Imperialism and African Diplomacy in the 1980s’, Africa Development, 6 (3) July-September 1981, 63–73.Google Scholar
- 6.Robert H. Bates, Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies, ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981 ) 30–1.Google Scholar
- 7.The literature on the revolutionary potential of Africa’s peasantry is growing. For a sampling of that debate, see Claude Ake,Revolutionary Pressures in Africa (London: Zed, 1978 );Google Scholar
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth ( New York: Grove 1968 );Google Scholar
- John Saul, ‘African Peasantries and Revolution’, in his The State and Revolution in Eastern Africa ( New York: Monthly Review, 1979 ) 297–338Google Scholar
- and Ken Post, ‘“Peasantisation” and Rural Political Movements in Western Africa’, Archives Européenes de Sociologie, 13, 1972, 223–54.Google Scholar
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