Summary This is a case study of rural producer households in the savannah farming area of North East Ghana where an increasing amount of cash cropping as an integral part of the domestic economy has coincided with increasingly widespread famine and chronic food shortages. The article emphasises just how complex particular historical experiences of cashcrop development may be, so that it is not easy to disentangle the effects of cash cropping from other economic changes as market relations come to characterise rural society. Specifically, it examines one of the assertions of the Food First lobby — namely that there is competition for scarce rural resources between food crop production and cash crop production. It suggests that if such comp...
This paper argues that government policy in Africa tends to produce a harsh economic environment for...
Agricultural land use in much of Brong-Ahafo region, Ghana has been shifting from the production of ...
The global demand for cashew nuts continues to increase steadily. However, many African countries f...
This paper examines the linkages between cash-crop income and other dimensions of poverty to interro...
This paper studies the dynamics between cash cropping and food crop productivity in Gokwe North Dist...
In the 19th and 20th centuries, African economies experienced a significant structural transformatio...
The case for promoting export-oriented cash crops in Africa has generally been based on their direct...
This paper means to study mutations of cash crops in West Africa. The growth of production mainly re...
SUMMARY The seasonal and spatial structure of the barter of trade of food producers can create syst...
AEE Working Paper.A growing body of evidence throughout Sub-Saharan Africa argues for the pursuit of...
This paper discusses the reasons for and effects of the dramatic expansion of chat production as a c...
This paper examines the linkages between cash-crop income and other dimensions of poverty to interro...
This article examines the effects of agricultural commercialization and other factors on per capita ...
Cash crops supply in rationed economies The positive effect of inputs and consumer goods supply on ...
This article aims to investigate the possible role of agriculture with regard to poverty alleviation...
This paper argues that government policy in Africa tends to produce a harsh economic environment for...
Agricultural land use in much of Brong-Ahafo region, Ghana has been shifting from the production of ...
The global demand for cashew nuts continues to increase steadily. However, many African countries f...
This paper examines the linkages between cash-crop income and other dimensions of poverty to interro...
This paper studies the dynamics between cash cropping and food crop productivity in Gokwe North Dist...
In the 19th and 20th centuries, African economies experienced a significant structural transformatio...
The case for promoting export-oriented cash crops in Africa has generally been based on their direct...
This paper means to study mutations of cash crops in West Africa. The growth of production mainly re...
SUMMARY The seasonal and spatial structure of the barter of trade of food producers can create syst...
AEE Working Paper.A growing body of evidence throughout Sub-Saharan Africa argues for the pursuit of...
This paper discusses the reasons for and effects of the dramatic expansion of chat production as a c...
This paper examines the linkages between cash-crop income and other dimensions of poverty to interro...
This article examines the effects of agricultural commercialization and other factors on per capita ...
Cash crops supply in rationed economies The positive effect of inputs and consumer goods supply on ...
This article aims to investigate the possible role of agriculture with regard to poverty alleviation...
This paper argues that government policy in Africa tends to produce a harsh economic environment for...
Agricultural land use in much of Brong-Ahafo region, Ghana has been shifting from the production of ...
The global demand for cashew nuts continues to increase steadily. However, many African countries f...