Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-33984-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 139 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grassin, Paul

Prowse, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Prowse is Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. He has worked at the Overseas Development Institute, UK, and at universities in Belgium, Denmark and Sweden. His research focuses on equity in agricultural intensification, value chains and climate change, mostly in Africa.
Paul Grassin is a Researcher at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with expertise in social stratification, cultural anthropology and comparative politics. His research focuses on the production of social order, the sociology of the police and police-people relations in urban and rural Malawi.