Politics, the state and agrarian development: a comparative study of Nigeria and the Ivory Coast

Watts, Michael; Bassett, Thomas J.

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“…Emphasis on agricultural development made some policy and economic sense at that time given the role and importance of agriculture at various levels in the Nigerian economy. During the colonial period, the role of agriculture in sustaining the empires of the colonial masters through commodity exports and cheap labour and capital has been variously acknowledged (Watts and Bassett, 1986;Iwuagwu, 2006;Abdu and Marshall, 1990). In terms of employment, Abba et al (1985, cited in Abdu andMarshall, 1990) noted the role of agriculture as the country's main industry as far as employment was concern with over 65% of the population being dependent on it for livelihood.…”

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Rural Development in Nigeria: A Review of Pre- and Post-independence Practice

Akpan

2012

JSR

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Rural development practice in Nigeria has spanned over 10 decades from pre-independence to the current decade. This paper attempts a time-series review on rural development practice in Nigeria to see what has changed over a fairly long period of time. Various development plan periods have been examined in relation to rural development practice. The review shows that the greater part of public efforts on rural development was subsumed under agricultural development which was more exploitative to the rural resources and residents than improve their quality of life. Although relatively improved understanding of rural development manifested among policy makers beginning in the late 1980s, the paper argues that such understanding surprisingly did not translate into corresponding improvement in rural development practice because of several factors including weak institutional arrangements, corruption and absence of coordinated practice among competing agencies. A number of recommendations have been highlighted.

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Rural Development in Nigeria: A Review of Pre- and Post-independence Practice

Akpan

2012

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“…Linking this variable to modernization theory neglects the Third World The preceding two paragraphs are complementary concerning research strategy. This is illustrated by Watts and Bassett's [124] examination of food shortages in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast. Because these nations are outwardly similar in several respects (e.g., high rates of economic growth based on commodity exports and extensive economic intervention by the national government), analysis might cease with a simple correlation.…”

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Reflections on Third World Development: Ground Level Reality, Exogenous Forces, and Conventional Paradigms

Brown¹

1988

Economic Geography

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“…Studies of Bakolori which embrace this protest have placed it firmly in the context of national political economy, and particularly the concentration and centralisation of state power over the rural sector in the 1970s (cf. Watts and Bassett, 1986;Sano, 1983). Thus Oculi (1981) stresses the powerful position of the banks and trans-national corporations at the time of the project report Bakolori in 1974, and the undermining of local planning through the co-option of local state officials (in the Federal River Basin Authority) via 'bribery or ideological collaboration' (Oculi, 1981: 204).…”

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Rural protest, land policy and the planning process on the Bakolori Project, Nigeria

Adams¹

1988

Africa

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Opening ParagraphIn the literature and accumulated folk wisdom of development in rural Africa there are numerous instances of government projects which are expensive, ineffective and unpopular. These include now classic failures of the past, such as the Tanganyika Groundnuts Scheme (Wood, 1950; Frankel, 1953), which are still cited as cautionary tales demonstrating the need for proper project appraisal. There are also numerous more recent examples, for the phenomenon of failure has persisted and governments and international agencies continue to implement schemes ‘little better planned than their more spectacularly misbegotten predecessors’ (Hill, 1978: 25). Among recent initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa the large-scale irrigation projects developed in northern Nigeria during the 1970s have attracted particularly extensive adverse criticism. This has focused on the social and economic impact of the introduction of irrigation and particularly on questions of land tenure (inter alia Wallace, 1979, 1980, 1981; Oculi, 1981; Adams, 1982, 1984; Palmer-Jones, 1984; Andrae and Beckman, 1985; Beckman, 1986). A number of accounts discuss technical aspects of the land survey carried out at Bakolori {Bird, 1981, 1984, 1985; Griffith, 1984), while others focus on economic problems (e.g. Etuk and Abalu, 1982). However, although economic and technical aspects of these developments have been criticised, it is the social impacts of project development and more particularly the political responses to those impacts which are of greatest interest (Wallace, 1980; Adams, 1984; Andrae and Beckman, 1985; Beckman, 1986). This paper examines the bature of the response of farmers affected by one of these schemes, the Bakolori Project in Sokoto State.

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Politics, the state and agrarian development: a comparative study of Nigeria and the Ivory Coast

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Rural Development in Nigeria: A Review of Pre- and Post-independence Practice

Rural Development in Nigeria: A Review of Pre- and Post-independence Practice

Reflections on Third World Development: Ground Level Reality, Exogenous Forces, and Conventional Paradigms

Rural protest, land policy and the planning process on the Bakolori Project, Nigeria

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