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Politics, Power and Social Differentiation in African Agricultural Value Chains: The Effects of COVID-19

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dc.creator Bellwood-Howard, Imogen
dc.creator Dancer, Helen
dc.date 2021-10-04T15:10:43Z
dc.date 2021-10-04T15:10:43Z
dc.date 2021-10-01
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:49:04Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:49:04Z
dc.identifier Bellwood-Howard, I. and Dancer, H. (2021) Politics, Power and Social Differentiation in African Agricultural Value Chains: The Effects of COVID-19, APRA Working Paper 69, Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium, DOI: 10.19088/APRA.2021.027
dc.identifier 978-1-78118-856-9
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16866
dc.identifier Rural Futures
dc.identifier 10.19088/APRA.2021.027
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198672
dc.description Since the structural adjustment policies of the 1980s, policymaking at a national and continental level has increasingly turned to agricultural commercialisation as the foundation for Africa’s long-term nutrition and food security. However, socio-economic inequalities, land tenure and food insecurity, as well as livelihood and income precarities remain widespread challenges. The effects of shocks, such as COVID-19, have overlaid emergent and entrenched patterns of social differentiation that shape access to resources, markets, and other opportunities for those involved in commercial agriculture. This paper considered the impacts of COVID-19 on value chains in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, to ask: 1) What can political settlements analyses tell us about agricultural value chains and responses to COVID-19 in the countries studied? 2) How are structures and power relations throughout the value chains and actors’ responses to COVID-19 related to social differentiation in the context of African agriculture?
dc.language en
dc.publisher APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.relation APRA Working Paper;69
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.subject Agriculture
dc.subject Development Policy
dc.subject Economic Development
dc.subject Politics and Power
dc.subject Rural Development
dc.title Politics, Power and Social Differentiation in African Agricultural Value Chains: The Effects of COVID-19
dc.type Series paper (non-IDS)


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