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Mohamed Lamine Gakou
The United Nations University
Zed Books
Ltd.
London and New Jersey
THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY/THIRD WORLD
FORUM
STUDIES IN AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
General Editor: Samir Amin
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The United Nations University's Project on Transnationalization or
Nation-Building in Africa (1982- 1986) was undertaken by a network of African
scholars under the co-ordination of Samir Amin. The purpose of the Project was
to study the possibilities of and constraints on national autocentric
development of African countries in the context of the world-system into which
they have been integrated. Since the 1970s the world-system has been in a crisis
of a severity and complexity unprecedented since the end of the Second World
War; the Project examines the impact of this contemporary crisis on the
political. economic and cultural situation of Africa today. Focusing on the
complex relationship between transnationalization (namely. the dynamics of the
world-system) and nation-building. which is seen as a precondition for national
development. the Project explores a wide range of problems besetting Africa
today and outlines possible alternatives to the prevailing development models
which have proved to be inadequate
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TITLES IN THIS SERIES
M. L. Gakou
The Crisis in African Agriculture
1987
Peter Anyang' Nyong'o (editor)
Popular Struggles for
Democracy in Africa
1987
Samir Amin, Derrick Chitala, Ibbo Mandaza (editors)
SADCC:
Prospects for Disengagement and Development in Southern Africa
1987
Faysal Yachir
The World Steel Industry: Dynamics of
Decline
1987
Other titles in preparation.
The Crisis in African Agriculture was first published in
1987
by:
Zed Books Ltd., 57 Caledonian Road, London N1 9BU, UK, and
171
First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 07716, USA
and:
The United Nations University, Toho Semei Building, 15-1 Shibuya
2-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150, Japan in cooperation with
The Third World Forum, B.P. 3501, Dakar, Senegal.
Copyright © The United Nations University, 1987.
Translation copyright © Third World Forum,
1987.
Translated by A. M. Berrett.
Cover designed by Andrew Corbett.
Typeset by Composer
Typesetting, Bath, Avon.
Printed and bound in the United Kingdom at The Bath
Press, Avon.
All rights reserved.
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British Library Cataloguing In Publication Data
Gakou, Mohammed Lamine
The crisis in African agriculture. -
(Studies in African political economy).
I. Food supply - Political
aspects - Africa
I. Title II. United Nations. University
III. Series IV.
La crise de l'agriculture
Africaine. English
338.1'9'6
HD9017.A2
ISBN 0-86232-732-6
ISBN 0-86232-733-4 Pbk
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gakou, Mohamed Lamine.
The crisis in African agriculture.
(United Nations University studies in African political
economy)
Translation of: La crise de l'agriculture
africaine.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Agriculture - Economic
aspects - Africa.
I. Title. II. Series
HD2117.G3513 1987 338.1'096
87-13355
ISBN 0-86232-732-6
ISBN 0-86232-733-4
(pbk.)
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