
The Bargain Sector
Economic restructuring and the non-farm sector in the Nigerian savanna
Kate Meagher(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-1-138-70161-8 (ISBN)
Description
Does the non-farm sector offer new hope for rural Africa? In the face of economic crisis and restructuring across Africa, small-scale enterprise has come to play a central role in rural livelihood and accumulation strategies. This apparent dynamism has attracted favourable attention from development thinkers and policy-makers, who have identified non-farm enterprise as a new low-cost agent of rural development. The research in this book challenges the growing consensus on the developmental potential of the non-farm sector. On the basis of recent fieldwork, the author argues that the prospects for non-farm led growth have been seriously undermined by the crippling pressures of structural adjustment, agricultural instability and rural as well as interregional inequality. Detailed village case-studies from the populous and highly commercialized grain surplus region of the Nigerian savanna leads the reader to investigate the link between local economic and social realities, and the wider regional, national and global processes that form the development of the non-farm sector in Africa. Far from offering a bargain solution, the author demonstrates that significant investment in agriculture and entrepreneurial development will be needed to create an enabling environment for non-farm growth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-70161-8 (9781138701618)
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Kate Meagher
Content
1. Introduction, the Story to be Told, 2. The Changing role of the Rural Non Farm Sector: Issues of policy and 3. Methodology 4. The Determinants of Non Farming Participation: Household, 5. Non -farm activities and structural adjustment,: An Enterprise Perspective, 6. NON-FARM ACTIVITIES AND RURAL LIVELIHOOD STRATEGY 7. Household Welfare and Social Networks: A NON-FARM PERSPECTIVE , 8. Conclusion