Living Under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa - Paperback

by Peter D. Little (Author)

The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women's movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. Her work reveals how women's political organizations both shaped, and were shaped by the broader democratic movement.

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Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming.

Author Biography

Peter D. Little is senior research associate at the Institute for Development Anthropology and associate research professor at the State University of New York-Binghamton. Among his books is The Elusive Granary: Herder, Farmer, and State in Northern Kenya. Michael Watts is professor of geography and development studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent and Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria.