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

Pédelahore P., Uwizeyimana L., Wainaina J., Toko C., Vaast P.. 2020. Journal of Agrarian Change, 20 (3) : p. 485-503.

DOI: 10.1111/joac.12358

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.

Mots-clés : agriculture familiale; système de production; système d'exploitation agricole; enquête sur les exploitations agricoles; plantations; économie agricole; coffea; theobroma cacao; cameroun; kenya; système de production agricole

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