Searching for a Weapon of Mass Production in Rural Africa: Unconvincing Arguments for Land Reform

By J. Sender, D. Johnston. 2004

171 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Urban Studies

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. P. Peters
2. I. Scoones
3. R. Hall
4. B. Cousins
5. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
6. Wendy Wolford
7. B. White
8. P. Woodhouse

In Soil Science

1. P. Peters
2. I. Scoones
3. B. Cousins
4. R. Hall
5. Wendy Wolford
6. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
7. B. White
8. P. Woodhouse

In Urban Studies

1. B. Cousins
2. P. Peters
3. P. Woodhouse
4. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
5. R. Hall
6. I. Scoones
7. Ha-Joon Chang
8. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

Citations in the corpus

• New investment, old challenges. Land deals and the water constraint in African agriculture (2012, background): “for the proposition that larger farms will generate more employment than small-scale cultivation (Sender and Johnson 2004), but it certainly underlines the importance of understanding rural communities as differentiated by wealth and access to land, so that smallholders farming their own land may no”
• The peasantries of the twenty-first century: the commoditisation debate revisited (2010, background): “Sender and Johnston 2004 ) persist in arguing the case for ‘scale economies’.”
• Global resource grabs, agribusiness concentration and the smallholder: two West African case studies (2012, background): “The IR has also featured in debates about land reform in southern Africa (Lipton 1993 , Binswanger and Deininger 1993 , Bernstein 2004 , Sender and Johnston 2004 , Moyo and Yeros 2005 , Scoones et al .”
• Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “…donors on the one hand, and, on the other, among radical critics – has been the inevitability of an agribusiness future centred on large farms, albeit with outgrower schemes absorbing (some of) the current rural populations (Sender and Johnston 2004, Collier 2008, Oya 2009, B. White et al. 2012).”
• Support for smallholder farmers in South Africa: Challenges of scale and strategy (2012, background): “(World Bank, 2007:91) Yet other things are seldom if ever equal (see Sender & Johnston, 2004, among others).”
• Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa (2009, background): “…of commercial farms to small farmers will have only negative effects on the employment and incomes of the rural poor, who will benefit most from policies that promote ‘capitalist farming and the growth of decently remunerated agricultural wage employment’ (Sender and Johnston 2004, 159).”
• The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “An agribusiness-oriented vision for agriculture, with large-scale farms at the core, even if linked through outgrower schemes to smallholders, is one that some see as the logical and perhaps inevitable extension of global capital into rural economies; a culmination of processes of agrarian change an”
• Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability (2010, background): “The low productivity of labour in much ‘traditional’ agriculture in Africa has led some to argue that only capital investment and a consequent increase in farm scale can achieve the significant increase in food productivity that increasing urbanization in Africa requires (Sender and Johnson 2004).”
• Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years (2012, background): “Shiva (2002) reports that microfinance programmes have been successfully used to ensure a less precipitous, and thus less politically damaging, decline in water demand after privatisation.”