Socio-Political Use of Large Scale Agriculture
Socio-Political Use of Large Scale Agriculture
Author(s): Hugues MelikiSubject(s): History, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: economic violence; agriculture; entrepreneur-farmers; elites; land grab
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents some concepts and related hypotheses embedded in the strategic paradigm of actor investment.Based on empirical evidence from the cocoa sector, by questioning reports of the society of cocoa development and analyzing peasants’ discourses, the paper, by aggregating related profiles to draw homogenous categories of new farmers, discusses some reasons which explain the emergence of these categories in cocoa farming.
Journal: Transylvanian Review
- Issue Year: XXVII/2018
- Issue No: Suppl 1
- Page Range: 97-114
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English