Land, Labour and Entrustment

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Land, Labour and Entrustment

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Diverse contractual arrangements and forms of exchange established between smallholder farmers, their households and community work groups, are important to our understanding of processes of agrarian transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, little has been written in this area. Challenging portrayals of West African female farmers as a homogenous group, the present study provides an ethnographic account of the contractual relations established between female hosts and migrants, in the exchange of land and labour for agrarian production in a Gambian community. Further, it demonstrates the way in which, despite the liberalization of the economy, local cultural practices, such as that of entrustment, continue to be of significance in affecting the nature and particular character of agrarian transformation and postcolonial capitalist development.

SKU: 36723 Category: Tag:
Subtitle: West African Female Farmers and the Politics of Difference
Author: Kea, Pamela
Year: 2010
ISBN: 9789004182325
Pages: 220
Language: English
Publisher: Brill
Publisher's city: Bedfordshire
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