Contribution to a renewed framework to analyse the interactions between family and capitalist agriculture

Philippe Pédelahore (), Laurien Uwizeyimana, Juliet Wainaina, Claude Toko and Philippe Vaast ()
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Philippe Pédelahore: UMR Innovation - Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Laurien Uwizeyimana: UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse
Juliet Wainaina: ICRAF - World Agroforestry Center [CGIAR, Kenya] - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]
Claude Toko: ICRAF - World Agroforestry Center [CGIAR, Kenya] - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]
Philippe Vaast: UMR Eco&Sols - Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: We examine whether current assumptions concerning the declining resilience of family farming and the growing influence of capitalist forms of agricultural production are being confirmed in the cocoa sector of Cameroon and the coffee sector of Kenya. This study is based on surveys of 181 family and capitalist farmers. Our results indicate that the capitalist approach is being consolidated on former colonial coffee estates in Kenya and on the cocoa pioneer front in Cameroon. This study also shows that in areas with a long history of family farming, family forms are showing good resilience due to a diversification of activities and sources of income, especially nonagricultural ones, and the patrimonialization of the land. Finally, this study proposes a framework for analysing the interactions between family and capitalist agriculture and their respective multisectorial strategies. For family farming, these strategies are based on work force mobility, whereas for capitalist agriculture, they are based on financial capital mobility.

Keywords: Coffea; Cameroun; Kenya; agriculture familiale; système de production; système d'exploitation agricole; enquête sur les exploitations agricoles; plantations; économie agricole; Cameroon; Theobroma cacao; Système de production agricole; Farm; Coffee; Cocoa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in Journal of Agrarian Change, 2020, 20 (3), pp.485-503. ⟨10.1111/joac.12358⟩

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Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05177238

DOI: 10.1111/joac.12358

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