
| African agriculture: The critical choices |
| Acknowledgements |
| 1. The agricultural revolution and industrialization |
![]() | The failure of the modernization strategies |
![]() | The agricultural revolution, but how? |
![]() | The alternative strategy |
| 2. The role of the export sector |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | The Algerian economy: development choices |
![]() | Industrialization: Effects on agriculture |
![]() | Agriculture and industry: Interaction |
| 5. Mauritania: Nomadism and peripheral capital |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Introduction |
![]() | The role of agriculture in Ivorian industrial development |
![]() | The industrialization strategy |
![]() | Conclusion |
| 8. Tanzania: Imperialism, the state and the peasantry |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | The state and the peasantry |
![]() | Consequences of state agricultural policy |
| 10. The state and rural development 1960-85 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | The nature of the problem |
![]() | Algeria |
![]() | Tanzania |
![]() | Experiences of Algeria and Tanzania: Lessons to be drawn |
| Conclusion |
| Abbreviations |
This book was produced in the framework of the United Nations University 'African Regional Perspectives' programme under the auspices of the Third World Forum. We wish to thank the UNU, the Italian Cooperation Agency and the Swedish Agency SAREC whose financial support made this work possible. Nevertheless, in accordance with the usual formula, the opinions expressed here are those of the authors alone and not of those institutions.