Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa （2020）

Prowse, Martin/ Grassin, Paul

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2020/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 139 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030339876
• DDC分類 320.96

Full Description

This book takes the reader through the expansion, restructuring and possible salvation of Malawi's main industry, tobacco. Malawi has been dependent on tobacco exports for a century, but now, with demand for Malawian tobacco declining fast, the country needs to diversify rapidly. The authors combine an innovative range of theory and methods to provide a comprehensive and incisive analysis of the dilemmas faced by countries which still rely on a limited number of agricultural commodities in the 21st century. This work will be ideal for scholars and researchers interested in political economy and African development. 

Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Smallholder Burley Reform Process and Maize Production in Malawi 1990 - 2005.- 3. A Comparative Value Chain Analysis of Smallholder Production - 2003/4 and 2009/10.- 4. Traceability and the Global Tobacco Value Chain.- 5. Brokers and Bondage at the Coalface of Contract Farming.- 6. Competition and the Institutional Architecture for Contract Farming.- 7. A Very Short Political Economy of Malawi.- 8. Conclusion.