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Cocoa Pioneer Fronts since 1800

The Role of Smallholders, Planters and Merchants

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. William Gervase Clarence-Smith

    1. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Cocoa Pioneer Fronts: The Historical Determinants

    • William Gervase Clarence-Smith, François Ruf
    Pages 1-22

  3. The Eastern Venezuela Pioneer Front, 1830s–1930s: The Role of the Corsican Trade Network

    • Nikita Harwich Vallenilla
    Pages 23-44

  4. The Trinidad Cocoa Industry and the Struggle for Crown Land during the Nineteenth Century

    • Kathleen Phillips Lewis
    Pages 45-64

  5. Ecuadorian Cocoa Production and Trade 1840–1925

    • Juan Maiguashca
    Pages 65-85

  6. A Cocoa Pioneer Front, 1890–1914: Planters, Merchants and Government Policy in Bahia

    • Robert G. Greenhill
    Pages 86-104

  7. Equatorial Guinea: The Struggle for a Cocoa Economy, 1880–1930

    • Ibrahim Sundiata
    Pages 105-118

  8. The Emergence of Duala Cocoa Planters under German Rule in Cameroon: A Case Study of Entrepreneurship

    • Yvette D. Monga
    Pages 119-136

  9. Cocoa Farming in Cameroon, c. 1914 – c. 1960: Land and Labour

    • Andreas Eckert
    Pages 137-153

  10. Mode of Production or Mode of Cultivation: Explaining the Failure of European Cocoa Planters in Competition with African Farmers in Colonial Ghana

    • Gareth Austin
    Pages 154-175

  11. Côte d’Ivoire’s Pioneer Fronts: Historical and Political Determinants of the Spread of Cocoa Cultivation

    • Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Eric Léonard
    Pages 176-194

  12. The Cocoa Frontier in Madagascar, the Comoro Islands and Réunion, c. 1820–1970

    • Gwyn R. Campbell
    Pages 195-211

  13. Smallholder Cocoa in Indonesia: Why a Cocoa Boom in Sulawesi?

    • François Ruf, Pierre Ehret, Yoddang
    Pages 212-231

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 233-247
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The livelihood of Third World farmers conflicts with saving the remaining tropical forests. The advantages of growing cocoa in cleared primary forest drive from the fertility of virgin soils and low concentrations of weeds, pests and diseases. The consequent emergence of new 'pioneer fronts' has also been affected by cheap labour, relative commodity prices, pests and diseases, credit resources, entrepreneurship, information, physical infrastructures, and government policies. The dynamism of smallholdings and competitive private marketing over estates and marketing boards is demonstrated.

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  • School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

    William Gervase Clarence-Smith

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