1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comparative Study on Commercialized Food Production in Africa
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08041079
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | KINKI UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
IKEGAMI Koichi KINKI UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE,ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 農学部, 助教授 (90176082)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TSUJIMURA Hideyuki KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF ECONOMY,LECTURER, 経済学部, 講師 (50303251)
SUGIMURA Kazuhiko FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF ECONOMY,ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 経済学部, 助教授 (80286913)
YOSHIKUNI Tsuneo SENSYU UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF COMMERCE,PROFESSOR, 商学部, 教授
SUEHARA Tatsuro RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF INTERNATIONAL CULTURE,PROFESSOR, 国際文化学部, 教授 (00179102)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1998
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| Keywords | African Agriculture / Tanzania / Zimbabwe / food production / peasant / irrigation / small commodities production / Matengo pid |
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| Research Abstract |
In Zimbabwe, we focused on small-scale agriculture consisting of small-scale commercial farms by Africans (SSC) and agriculture in communal lands and in resettlement areas. SSC is growing as a social class. This implies that Africans started to participate in capitalist agriculture. Among of three types of SSC, hardworking family farm type has capability to cause social change. This type seeks for quite different target from those of farmers in communal lands. Most of them still keep the traditional value system of peasantry. However, expansion of cash economy forces them to introduce small commodities production. Although "Chime", a small spring, agriculture on the outskirts of cities has been taking an important role in this point, less study has done about it. Farmers who are engaged in small-scale irrigated agriculture in resettlement areas are positioned between farmers of SSC and of communal lands. They can be evaluated as achieving seligovernment orientation development. Thus, hardworking farmers in SC, communal lands, and resettlement areas are the source of reconstruction of the society.
In Tanzania, we analyzed the features, and the "change" of Matengo society in the Ruvuma Region. This society has the structure which works as combination of the high population density villages sustained by intensive agriculture with the low population density villages derived from mother villages. This combination makes it possible to see commodity economy in the way of peasantry. We can regard this point as the features of the "Matengo" society. Farmers in the "Matengo" society choose coffee production as the strategy for adoption of the commodity economy. As coffee is the world-wide commodity, farmers are trifled with by the complicated structure of marketing system and the fluctuations of price, especially after liberalization of coffee marketing.
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