Contract Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of Approaches, Debates and Issues
Contract Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of Approaches, Debates and Issues
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1471-0366.2011.00337.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Carlos Oya
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作者：
Carlos Oya
本文对发展中国家合同农业兴起的最重要文献进行了选择性调查，重点是撒哈拉以南非洲地区。对文献的回顾说明了围绕合同农业的意义和重要性以及它对小农是好是坏的意识形态辩论。然后，论文将文献综述分为三个关键主题。首先，它解决了非洲合同农业的数量意义，这可能不像它经常被描绘的那么重要。其次，本文强调了非洲合同农业的实质性多样性以及过度一般化的问题。第三，它讨论了推动合同农业传播的各种驱动因素，这些因素反映了新的生产条件和现有的制约因素、趋势和反趋势，以及在自由化和全球化时代对生产和市场条件变化的经济和政治反应。各种各样的驱动因素是实质性的，与对合同农业出现的概括不符。最后，它简要地提出了在大多数关于合同农业的文献中往往不存在的研究问题，这些问题对于理解非洲国家农业变化和向资本主义过渡的当前动态非常重要。
The paper provides a selective survey of the most significant literature on the rise of contract farming in developing countries, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The review of the literature illustrates ideological debates around the meaning and significance of contract farming and whether it is good or bad for small-scale farmers. The paper then divides the review of the literature into three key themes. First, it addresses the quantitative significance of contract farming in Africa, which may not be as important as it is often portrayed. Second, the paper highlights the substantial diversity of contract farming in Africa and problems with excessive generalizations. Third, it discusses the various drivers fuelling the spread of contract farming, which reflect new production conditions and existing constraints, tendencies and counter-tendencies, and both economic and political responses to changes in production and market conditions in the era of liberalization and globalization. The variety of drivers is substantial and defies generalizations about the emergence of contract farming. Finally, it briefly suggests research questions that tend to be absent in most of the literature on contract farming, and which are important in order to understand the current dynamics of agrarian change and transitions to capitalism in African countries.