Published August 1981
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Journal Article
Food policy in Africa: Political causes and societal effects
- Creators
- Bates, Robert H.
Abstract
Food policy in Africa is derived policy; it is developed in an effort to solve the political and economic problems of persons other than fanners. Food policy is employed to obtain peaceful relations between governments and their urban constituents and to secure the allegiance of powerful elites. A major consequence is the transformation of social and economic patterns in the countryside.
Additional Information
© 1981 Elsevier Ltd. Research toward this article was supported by National Science Foundation Grant No SOC 77–08573. For treatment at greater length, see Robert H. Bates, Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political basis of Agricultural Policy, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1981. Formerly SSWP 256.Additional details
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- 83626
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- SOC77–08573
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