Rural resource management and the state in Africa: A comparative analysis of Ghana and Rwanda

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19KK0031
• Research Category: Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B))
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 6:Political science and related fields
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: Takeuchi Shinichi 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (60450459)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 千年 篤 東京農工大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 教授 (10307233) ; 桐越 仁美 国士舘大学, 文学部, 講師 (70793157)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-10-07 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: アフリカ / 伝統的権威 / 農村 / 政治体制 / 土地 / 政策 / 国家 / 政党

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aimed at comparing rural changes in Rwanda and Ghana, and focuses the role of the ruling party in Rwanda and the traditional chiefs in Ghana, respectively. This three-year project illustrated two different paths to capitalistic rural changes: in Rwanda, the rapid and drastic agricultural commercialization and the dismantlement of subsistence economy have been observed under the initiative of the party-state regime; in Ghana, the traditional chiefs have played an important role as promoters of the primitive accumulation in the much longer process of commercialization.

Free Research Field

地域研究

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ルワンダとガーナという対照的な二ヵ国を比較し、アフリカで急速に進む農村変容の実態を、主導するアクターの違いを踏まえて描き出した。農村変容を国家と関連付けて分析し、従来別々に進められる傾向があったミクロとマクロの研究を接続したところに、本研究の重要な学術的意義がある。英文書籍出版やガーナ大学との共同セミナーを通じて、研究成果普及や学術ネットワーク構築にも成果を上げた。