The Post-Privatization Role of Out-growers' Associations in Rural Capital Accumulation: Contract Farming of Sugar Cane in Kilombero, Tanzania
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The Post-Privatization Role of Out-growers' Associations in Rural Capital Accumulation : Contract Farming of Sugar Cane in Kilombero, Tanzania. / Isager, Lotte; Fold, Niels; Nsindagi, Thobias.
In: Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2018, p. 196-213.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Post-Privatization Role of Out-growers' Associations in Rural Capital Accumulation
T2 - Contract Farming of Sugar Cane in Kilombero, Tanzania
AU - Isager, Lotte
AU - Fold, Niels
AU - Nsindagi, Thobias
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Contract farming is widely promoted by multilateral agencies as an engine of economic growth in developing countries. The agencies often stress the need for governments to create strong farmers' organizations that can shoulder the risks associated with contractual relationships with large corporations. However, empirical studies of farmers' organizations in contractual schemes are few and tend to dismiss the performances of these organizations for not measuring up to donor expectations. This paper seeks to offer a more unbiased examination of what farmer's organizations actually do by recounting the development of out-growers' associations in a contract farming scheme in central Tanzania. The paper explores the new space for social organization and business operations which emerged after privatization in 1998. It is argued that under certain conditions, out-grower associations occupy a crucial position with regard to classic agrarian questions of land, labour and capital accumulation.
AB - Contract farming is widely promoted by multilateral agencies as an engine of economic growth in developing countries. The agencies often stress the need for governments to create strong farmers' organizations that can shoulder the risks associated with contractual relationships with large corporations. However, empirical studies of farmers' organizations in contractual schemes are few and tend to dismiss the performances of these organizations for not measuring up to donor expectations. This paper seeks to offer a more unbiased examination of what farmer's organizations actually do by recounting the development of out-growers' associations in a contract farming scheme in central Tanzania. The paper explores the new space for social organization and business operations which emerged after privatization in 1998. It is argued that under certain conditions, out-grower associations occupy a crucial position with regard to classic agrarian questions of land, labour and capital accumulation.
KW - Contract farming
KW - Out-growers' associations
KW - Rural capitalism
KW - Sugar cane
KW - Tanzania
U2 - 10.1111/joac.12197
DO - 10.1111/joac.12197
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85006802928
VL - 18
SP - 196
EP - 213
JO - Journal of Agrarian Change
JF - Journal of Agrarian Change
SN - 1471-0358
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 177410135