Africans on the Land

Yudelman, Montague

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“…La respuesta parte por comprender que el sector agroalimentario es "un pilar clave para el desarrollo y el combate al hambre y la pobreza en la región" (FAO-ALADI, 2015, p. 1) y que la integración regional se constituye en un instrumento para garantizar la SAN -no solo a través del intercambio de bienes agrícolas sino también con el fomento de inversiones para fortalecer la producción, desarrollar el sector y facilitar el comercio-y consolidar la posición de un grupo de países o de una región dentro de los sistemas agroalimentarios globales. 12 América Latina posee enormes potencialidades en recursos naturales -ventajas comparativas-para desarrollar el comercio agroalimentario con base en la enorme variedad de productos cultivados en ella y que son demandados en los mercados mundiales (Yudelman, 1970); a su vez, el intercambio comercial agrícola tiene efectos positivos sobre la SAN, el crecimiento económico y el desarrollo. Su expansión puede conferir estabilidad a la disponibilidad de alimentos y fomentar las inversiones para la creación de cadenas y clúster agroalimentarios de la región (FAO-ALADI, 2015).…”

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“…El desarrollo agrícola y la integración económica del sector en América Latina están obstaculizados por problemas estructurales como la resistencia a expandir el comercio agrícola por falta de industrias orientadas a la exportación (aunque haya eficiencia productiva a nivel interno); la protección industrial doméstica y sus efectos sobre los costos de producción agrícola; la "bipolaridad" tecnológica 6 que caracteriza al sector y lo hace incompatible con una economía nacional integrada; la baja integración entre la estructura del sector agrícola y la estructura de las economías nacionales; y la falta de integración física entre las unidades de producción y los principales centros de actividad económica, como signo de subdesarrollo que dificulta la movilidad de los recursos y el funcionamiento del mercado (Yudelman, 1970).…”

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Sector Agroalimentario e Integración Regional: una simbiosis necesaria para la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional

Fernández-Guillén

2020

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Mediante una investigación documental-descriptiva y cuantitativa-analítica, apoyada en el cálculo e interpretación de indicadores de posición comercial y dinámica del comercio intrarregional, el trabajo examina la relación existente entre agricultura, integración regional y seguridad alimentaria. Para ello analiza el papel desempeñado por la variable agrícola en el contexto de los acuerdos de integración, caracteriza los elementos que confieren sensibilidad al sector agroalimentario y condicionan su tratamiento especial dentro de las experiencias de regionalismo y evalúa el estado de la integración agroalimentaria regional entre 2001 y 2019 comparando tres esquemas latinoamericanos: ALADI, CAN y MERCOSUR. La discusión central argumenta que la profundización del comercio agroalimentario a través de la integración económica ofrece oportunidades para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria, como instrumento capaz de suministrar alimentos de manera estable y fluida, frente a las turbulencias en los mercados internacionales y con costos transaccionales más bajos. Se concluye que en América Latina no existe integración desde el punto de vista del intercambio agroalimentario y se ofrece una serie de recomendaciones a nivel de políticas públicas en aras del desarrollo agrícola, del comercio y del fortalecimiento de la integración.

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Sector Agroalimentario e Integración Regional: una simbiosis necesaria para la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional

Fernández-Guillén

2020

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“…... the system rested on migration being circular between rural areas and urban centres, and on migrants retaining access to rural land (which should, however, be insufficient to generate enough income to meet all a family"s needs). 2000: 811The resultant conditions have often been associated with agricultural failure in some rural societies as most households became highly dependent on remittances from the capitalist sector (see Potts 2000;Potts & Mutambirwa 1990;GoL [Riddell Commission] 1981;Yudelman 1964).…”

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Youth, agriculture and land reform in Zimbabwe: Experiences from a communal area and resettlement scheme in semi-arid Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

Thebe

2018

African Studies

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Three decades of land reform in Zimbabwe ended in an ambiguous victory for youth. Focus on the cumulative outcome, in terms of scale and scope, led to conclusions that the exercise was a success, which obscured the resultant forms of exclusion. This article attempts to sketch an analytical context in which the dynamics of Zimbabwe"s land reform may be understood. It focuses at the broader policy and societal levels, and investigates the socio-political dynamics, and their combined effects on landing the economy for youth. It highlights the challenges associated with poverty reduction through land and agriculture for a semi-proletarian youth, and suggests that a policy of agricultural modernisation is unlikely to succeed in changing the economic circumstances of young people.

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“…See Sudbeck 1989:60. African farmers, as many observers have noted, had long been practicing intercropping prior to white arrival in Zimbabwe as part of a complex strategy for contending with an array of agro-ecological conditions (Brown 1959;Yudelman 1964). Colonial disregard for African ecological knowledge failed to appreciate the risk-averse practice of fragmented holdings spread across environmental micro-niches, topography, and social space (Floyd 1959;Matowanyika 1991).…”

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The Crucible of Cultural Politics: Reworking "Development" in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands

Moore

1999

American Ethnologist

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In early July 1991, Zimbabwean state officials, escorted by armed police, rolled into Kaerezi Resettlement Scheme in Toyota Landcruisers. The District Administrator addressed an anxious crowd of 200, speaking in the deep ChiManyika dialect of his grandparents, who had been evicted decades before from the bordering National Park. He demanded that those assembled move from their current homesteads into the scheme's densely packed residential grids located up to a kilometer away from household fields. The cordoned-off residential sites were a cornerstone of state resettlement policy, designed to promote "development" and environmental "conservation." The administrator used the English term villagesio describe the linear grids, as if to suggest that the unpeopled landscape-marked by rusted metal stakes on barren terrain-constituted a vibrant community in waiting. Most Kaerezians called these empty spaces simply the lines, the same term used for colonial land use plans that had forced Africans into linear settlement grids separated from fields and pastures.American E\hnologist 26(31:654-689. american ethnologisthuts and the forcible evictions, one elder cynically observed, "This government is made of matches." The local chief stood to address the crowd, tactically invoking the political capital of his predecessor, the late nationalist hero Rekayi Tangwena, who was buried with state honors in 1984. In the 1970s, BBC film footage captured Rekayi's defiance of Rhodesian evictions from that same property, then the white-owned Gaeresi Ranch. Images of burning huts, police brutality, and children in tattered clothes living without permanent shelter in the rugged mountains bordering Mozambique fueled an international sanctions campaign that travelled over transnational mediascapes. Hundreds of Tangwena's followers hid in the thick mountain forests surrounding Kaerezi, returning to their former homes on the ranch under the cover of nightfall to rebuild destroyed huts, temporarily staving off evictions. Under increased militarization of operations on the ranch, they fled en masse to Mozambique, where they sought refuge in FRELIMO-controlled liberated zones.'In 1991, almost twenty years after the most prominent evictions, the new chief placed territorial struggles in the landscape of national liberation. He attacked the lines. "Rekayi told me that his people 'won' this area. I came here to inherit his chiefdom. President Mugabe told Rekayi nobody would disturb his people. That's why I don't want the lines installed in my territory. We want development (budiriro), not the lines." 2 The chief singled out specific development desires: tarred roads, buses, and agricultural demonstrators. Kaerezians cheered boisterously, serving up what a government report later lamented as "ululation and applause" which revealed that the "traditional leadership was still running the show regarding opposition" to resettlement policy. 3 A prominent headman stood and commanded silence: "President Mugabe said there should be development in Tangwena's t...

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Africans on the Land

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Sector Agroalimentario e Integración Regional: una simbiosis necesaria para la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional

Sector Agroalimentario e Integración Regional: una simbiosis necesaria para la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional

Youth, agriculture and land reform in Zimbabwe: Experiences from a communal area and resettlement scheme in semi-arid Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

The Crucible of Cultural Politics: Reworking "Development" in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands

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