Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change

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dc.contributor.authorHall, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorScoones, Ian
dc.contributor.authorTsikata, Dzodzi
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-21T09:54:51Z
dc.date.available2018-09-21T09:54:51Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractWhether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale, avoid dispossessing local people of their land, promote diversified and sustainable livelihoods, and catalyse more vibrant local economies depends on what farming model is pursued. In this Forum, we build on recent scholarship by discussing the key findings of our recent studies in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. We examined cases of three models of agricultural commercialisation, characterised by different sets of institutional arrangements that link land, labour and capital. The three models are: plantations or estates with on-farm processing; contract farming and outgrower schemes; and medium-scale commercial farming areas. Building on core debates in the critical agrarian studies literature, we identify commercial farming areas and contract farming as producing the most local economic linkages, and plantations/estates as producing more jobs, although these are of low quality and mostly casual. We point to the gender and generational dynamics emerging in the three models, which reflect the changing demand for family and wage labour. Models of agricultural commercialisation do not always deliver what is expected of them in part because local conditions play a critical role in the unfolding outcomes for land relations, labour regimes, livelihoods and local economies.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationHall, R. et al. (2017). Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 44(3): 515-537.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2016.1263187
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4071
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis OAen_US
dc.rights© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectCommercial farmingen_US
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen_US
dc.subjectEconomic linkagesen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectLabouren_US
dc.subjectLanden_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.titlePlantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian changeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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