African Agriculture: The Critical Choices (United Nations University)

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1. The agricultural revolution and industrialization

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The failure of the modernization strategies

The agricultural revolution, but how?

The alternative strategy

2. The role of the export sector

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The decline in agricultural production

Failure of the export model

Alternative strategies: Algeria and Ethiopia

Social relations and agricultural development

3. Food self-sufficiency: Crisis of the collective ideology

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The Lagos plan of action: A critique

World bank 'counter-plan'

The United Nations' plan (PPERA)

Food self-sufficiency strategies: Problems of implementation

4. Algeria: Agriculture and industry

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The Algerian economy: development choices

Industrialization: Effects on agriculture

Agriculture and industry: Interaction

5. Mauritania: Nomadism and peripheral capital

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Pastoral production

Integration of the pastoral world into the market economy

Evolution of the social and political framework of nomadism

Conclusion

6. Nigeria and the Ivory Coast: Commercial and export crops since 1960

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Introduction

Agricultural production trends in both countries

Ivory Coast: Development strategy and commercial and export agriculture

How the state intervenes

Nigeria: Commercial and export agriculture

Conclusion

7. Ivory Coast: Agricultural and industrial development

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Introduction

The role of agriculture in Ivorian industrial development

The industrialization strategy

Conclusion

8. Tanzania: Imperialism, the state and the peasantry

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Introduction

Imperialism and rural development

Rural development policies in Tanzania: Post-independence

Social consequences of rural policies

Failure of villagization projects

Conclusion

9. Tunisia: The state, the peasantry and food dependence

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The state and the peasantry

Consequences of state agricultural policy

10. The state and rural development 1960-85

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Introduction

Management of rural development

Structural causes of the crisis

Prospects for a different rural development strategy

Conclusion

11. Agricultural development without delinking: Lessons to be drawn

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The nature of the problem

Algeria

Tanzania

Experiences of Algeria and Tanzania: Lessons to be drawn

Conclusion

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