Agricultural Policy: Strategies, Challenges and Global Implications
Erschienen am 4. Juni 2024
128 Seiten
979-8-89113-787-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
This book consists of five chapters that focus on recent agricultural policy. Chapter one argues that adaptation and households' responses to changes in the environment are complicated by the fact that human actions do not occur in a social vacuum and are often mediated by a variety of historical and social factors, which are socially embedded. Chapter two explores the significance of wage employment to rural livelihoods and how the enduring formal unemployment crisis, witnessed since the 1990s, has affected peasant agriculture. Based on an application of Mancur Olson's collective action approach, chapter three draws attention to the role of Northern development NGOs in advancing agricultural protectionism. Using Malawi as a case study, chapter four contributes to the contemporary debates on the youth employment challenge, particularly those centered on the potential role of agriculture in solving youth unemployment, accelerating economic growth, and accelerating intra-continental trade. Chapter five provides a brief scrutiny of major issues in agricultural policy analysis aiming at contributing to informed policy debate in this subject area.
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Preface
- Socio-Cultural Limits to Adaptation: Small-Farm Households, Agricultural Practices and Changing Natural Environment in North-Western Zimbabwe
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Adaptation to Climate Change, Culture and Limits to Adaptation
- The Zimbabwean Context
- Methods and Sampling
- Results and Discussions
- Gumede and Its Natural Environment
- Social Dimensions of Farming
- Appeal to the Supernatural
- Environmental Knowledge
- Farming Practices
- Failing to Adapt or Doing What Is Familiar?
- Preference for Maize
- Rigid Rain Calendar
- Conclusion
- References
- Biographical Sketch
- The Significance of Wage Employment and the Enduring Unemployment Crisis and its Effects on Peasant Farming in Zimbabwe
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Conceptual Framework
- Materials and Methods
- The Development of the Wage Economy in Zimbabwe
- The Importance of Wage Employment
- Perspectives on the Post-2000 Zimbabwean Economic Crisis
- The Unemployment Crisis after the 1990s
- Unemployment Crisis and Smallholder Agriculture
- Available Livelihood Options and Future Implications
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- Northern Development NGOs as Special Interest Groups: How the Smallholder 'Idea' Promotes Agricultural Protectionism
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Theory of Special Interest GROUPS and How to Expand It
- 3. Qualitative Historical Research with NGO Records
- 4. Professionalisation of Third World Advocacy Groups: Changing the Narrative on 'Fair Trade'
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Accelerating the Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA): Rethinking Youth and the Agriculture Question in Malawi
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
- The Methodology
- Conceptualising Youth, Pathways and Transitions
- Malawi's Economic Growth and the Youth
- Malawi Youth Participation in Agriculture: Perceptions and Aspirations
- Agricultural Policy and Strategies in Malawi: Youth Challenges in Agriculture
- The Role of the Youth in Agriculture and Implementing AFCFTA
- Conclusion and Implications
- References
- A Cursory Glance on Agricultural Policy Analysis in a Changing Landscape
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Market Structures and Policy Measures
- Multilateral Trade Processes and New Regionalism
- Further Policy Challenges and Analytical Models
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Blank Page
