Decolonizing African Agriculture

Part I: The Big Picture



1. Introduction: decolonizing African agriculture



2. A brief history of African food security and agricultural development policies



3. Conceptualizing change



Part II: Country Studies of Failed Agricultural Development in the Colonial and Postcolonial Periods



4. Mali: from West African bread-basket to malnutrition and the cotton commodity trap



5. Planned and unplanned agricultural calamities in Burkina Faso: the new green revolution for Africa and proliferating herbicides



6. Problems with the Ricardian food security dream: Botswana's challenge of growth with hunger



7. Big agriculture's take-over of South Africa's land redistribution programme



Part III: Reimagining African Food Systems



8. Farmer and consumer agency in Mali: food sovereignty and agroecology amidst global food price fluctuations and conflict



9. Burkina Faso: privileging food systems thinking



10. Gender matters: women farmers, water and climate change in Botswana



11. Agrarian justice in South Africa's Western Cape



Part IV: African Agriculture and Global Political Economy



12. Feeding the fire or dousing the embers: interrogating the regional and international institutional architecture shaping African agriculture, food security and agroecology



13. Conclusion: aiding and abetting radical transformation

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• Geografia económica
• Geografia regional
• A segurança alimentar e abastecimento
• Estudos sobre o desenvolvimento
• Agricultura e indústrias relacionadas
• Produção de Agronomia e cultura
• Libertação nacional e independência, pós-colonialismo

Botswana; South Africa; Burkina Faso; Mali; transformation; water security; agricultural commodities; agroecology; political ecology; political agronomy; green revolution; agricultural development policies; nutrition; food systems; food security; political economy; intellectual colonization