An African Niche Economy : : Farming to Feed Ibadan / / Jane L Guyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Guyer, Jane L,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International African Library : IAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Of the several forces reshaping West African rural societies and economies in the post-colonial period, one of the most pervasive is the rapid growth of urban demand. This book studies a Yoruba community in the supply hinterland of Ibadan over twenty years. It tells the social and agricultural history of its various producers, from the Nigerian civil war, via the oil boom and bust, to structural adjustment. It argues that principles of occupational organisation inherited from the past are now being applied to the creation of a competitive and responsive regional market that promises to be one of the most important social forms in West Africa's future.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps, Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Maps -- Part 1: Locations -- 1. Urban Hinterlands and Competitive Economies -- 2. The Challenges and Methods of a Restudy -- 3. Idere: An Invented Community -- Part II: Narratives -- 4. Newcomers and Novelties of the 1960s: Migrant Labour, Contract Farming and Other Innovations -- 5. Farming in the Peripheral Hinterland, 1968 -- 6. The Oil Boom: Transporters, Tractors and New Sources of Hired Labour -- 7. The Mid-scale Farmers -- 8. The Foothold of Corporate Agribusiness -- 9. Women's Entry into Farming -- 10. The Younger Generation of Men -- 11. The Small-scale Male Farmers in 1988 -- Part III: Synergies -- 12. 'Everybody's Farming Now': Agro-ecology in the Late 1980s -- 13. Collective Dynamics -- 14. The Niche Economy and Hinterland Change -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index