Thomas J Bassett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96708 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas J Bassett |
| PRENOMES | Thomas J |
| SOBRENOME | Bassett |
| ASSINATURA | BASSETT T J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7536-2108 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 781 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Distributive Governance and Persistent Inequalities in the Cashew Value Chain of Côte d’Ivoire
This paper illuminates the role of the state in global value chain (GVC) governance, specifically the processes of distributive governance through which state agencies redistribute value towards certain GVC actors. Through a case study of the cashew value chain in Côte d’Ivoire, we analyze how the state’s regulatory authority, the Cotton and Cashew Council (CCA), seeks to move value up the chain to promote fair producer prices and a domestic proc…
Drawing the Line
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire
Many mainstream development actors and scholars concerned about rural poverty and hunger in Africa recommend integrating smallholder farmers, especially women, into formally structured agricultural value chains (AVCs). This influential approach rests on the assumption that productivity-enhancing technologies and stronger market linkages will raise farmer incomes, and in turn improve food and nutrition security (FNS) in farmer households via incre…
Lost in Translation
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Bringing to Scale
The concept of "scaling up" value chains dominates the African agricultural development literature. Scaling up commonly refers to three inter-related objectives: increasing agricultural production and quality, expanding farmer engagement with markets, and adding greater value to commodities that benefits all actors. Bassett, Koné, and Munro provide a critique of the assumption of linear and progressive development embedded in the scaling-up conce…
The Arid Lands
Le boom de l’anacarde dans le bassin cotonnier du Nord ivoirien
Le paysage agricole des régions de la savane ivoirienne est très différent aujourd’hui, comparé à il y a seulement vingt ans. Le changement le plus important a été l’expansion des vergers de noix de cajou et le déclin relatif de la superficie cotonnière. Cet article cherche à expliquer cette transformation agricole, en examinant la prise de décision des agriculteurs dans l’économie politique plus large de la Côte d’Ivoire et l’histoire du dévelop…
Limits of the New Green Revolution for Africa
In order to address food insecurity, the New Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A) promotes tighter integration of African smallholder farmers, especially women, into formal markets via value chains to improve farmers' input access and to encourage the sale of crop surpluses. This commentary offers a theoretical and practical critique of the GR4A model, drawing on early findings from a five-year study of value chain initiatives in Burkina Faso, Côte…
Power Relations and Upgrading in the Cashew Value Chain of Côte d'Ivoire
Development organizations are increasingly adopting market-based approaches to reducing rural poverty and food insecurity in the global South. The value chain approach is particularly popular. Aid donors, governments and non-governmental organizations are applying value chain concepts originally designed for promoting industrial production to smallholder agricultural production. Cashew development in Côte d'Ivoire illustrates this new approach to…
Mapping for investability
Dossier
This paper highlights the major political ecological perspectives in the Anglophone literature on socioecological relations with emphasis on three main theoretical framings: environmental/social dialectic; environmental constructivism; and the co-production of socionature. These framings resonate with the literature’s conceptualization of nature-society relations in terms of the destruction, construction, and co-production of nature. The paper di…
Mastering the Niger
The correct course of the Niger, West Africa’s largest river, remained a mystery to Europeans until the early nineteenth century. Theories abounded: some believed it flowed east to join the Nile or
Capturing the Margins
Regulation by Territorialization
IntroductionUnder the banners of environmental conservation, food security, and sustainable development, a diverse group of public and private actors is busily dividing the global South into conservation and development territories at a variety of scales. Multiple goals and processes drive these spatial strategies to reconfigure resource access, control, and management. The production of territory to regulate populations and resources has a long …
Territorialisation et pouvoir
Introduction Au nom de la conservation environnementale, de la securite alimentaire et du developpement durable, un groupe diversifie d’acteurs public et prives s’affairent a diviser les Suds en territoires de conservation et de developpement a differentes echelles. Plusieurs objectifs et processus conduisent ces strategies spatiales a reconfigurer l’acces aux ressources, leur controle et leur gestion. La production de territoire pour controler l…
Bibliographie
Cette bibliographie est proposée par les coordinateurs du dossier en complément de la liste des notices bibliographiques BGI.Adams W., Hutton J., 2007. People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation. Conservation & Society, 5(2), p. 147-183 p.Adger W. N., Benjaminsen T. A., Brown K. et Svarstad H., 2001. Advancing a political ecology of global environmental discourses. Development and Change, 32 (4), p. 681-715.Agrawal…
Environmental narratives and politics in Tanzania's Rufiji Delta
Of research questions and literature reviews
Déjà vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature
The Redd menace
Winning coalition, sore loser
Journal Article Winning coalition, sore loser: Côte d'Ivoire's 2010 presidential elections Get access Thomas J. Bassett Thomas J. Bassett * *Thomas J. Bassett ([email protected]) is Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I would like to thank Colin Flint, Sara McLafferty, Carol Spindel, and Scott Straus for their helpful comments on an early version of this briefing. Search for other works by this author on: …
Mobile pastoralism on the brink of land privatization in Northern Côte d’Ivoire
Slim pickings
Nature as Local Heritage in Africa
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Constructing Locality
This article examines the origins and evolution of the terroir approach as an organizing idea in development planning in West Africa. We consider the evolving meaning of the terroir concept in three distinct periods: as a research approach crafted in a French geographical school; as a site for research-development programmes, and, most recently, as a tool for conservation planning, territorial restructuring, and land privatization. An important s…
Déjà vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature
The Redd menace
The Political Ecology of Peasant-Herder Conflicts in the Northern Ivory Coast
Following the great Sahelian drought of the early 1970s, an unprecedented number of Fulani pastoralists immigrated to the Ivory Coast with their cattle. Although welcomed by the Ivorian government for their contribution to national beef production, the Fulani's presence has been bitterly opposed by Senufo peasants in the savanna region over the problem of uncompensated crop damage. I examine the nature of peasant-herder conflicts in northern Ivor…
Cartography and Empire Building in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
Environmental Discourses and the Ivorian Savanna
The African continent is portrayed in development texts as experiencing environmental crises of staggering proportions. Despite a lack of reliable data, the World Bank considers environmental degradation to be so widespread that the ‘business’ of environmental planning and regulation is now seen as a global affair. It currently requires low-income countries receiving its financial assistance to develop National Environmental Action Plans (NEAPs) …
Constructing Locality
This article examines the origins and evolution of theterroirapproach as an organizing idea in development planning in West Africa. We consider the evolving meaning of theterroirconcept in three distinct periods: as a research approach crafted in a French geographical school; as a site for research-development programmes, and, most recently, as a tool for conservation planning, territorial restructuring, and land privatization. An important shift…
Limits of the New Green Revolution for Africa
In order to address food insecurity, the New Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A) promotes tighter integration of African smallholder farmers, especially women, into formal markets via value chains to improve farmers' input access and to encourage the sale of crop surpluses. This commentary offers a theoretical and practical critique of the GR4A model, drawing on early findings from a five-year study of value chain initiatives in Burkina Faso, Côte…
Sudden Shift or Migratory Drift? FulBe Herd Movements to the Sudano-Guinean Region of West Africa
Slim pickings
Dangerous Pursuits
This article examines the resurgence of hunter associations (donzo ton) in Côte d'Ivoire during the 1990s in the context of game depletion, rising crime rates, and a dysfunctional state. Initiated hunters (donzow) are widely respected by the general public for their mystical powers and potent amulets which protect them from malevolent forces in the natural and social worlds. The donzow's success in reducing crime in northern rural areas led to an…
Fulani Herd Movements
Mobile pastoralism on the brink of land privatization in Northern Côte d’Ivoire
Containing the Donzow
Initiated hunters (donzow) rose to national prominence in Côte d'Ivoire during the 1990s as crimefighters and succeeded in restoring public order throughout the country. Politicians sought to ride the wave of donzo popularity to boost their electoral campaigns, but the Ivorian government of Henri Konan Bedié was more ambivalent toward the hunters and their association (donzo ton). The Ministry of the Interior feared that the donzow might form a p…
From the Best Authorities’
This study goes beyond the ‘first and last appearance’ approach of cartographic historians to examine the social contexts in which the Kong Mountains were first depicted in and then eliminated from nineteenth-century maps of Africa. This history shows that the conventional periodization of the history of cartography into ‘decorative’ and ‘scientific’ phases is greatly exaggerated. We trace the mountains' origins to the geographer James Rennell an…
Mapping for investability
Card-carrying hunters, rural poverty, and wildlife decline in northern Côte d'Ivoire
This paper examines wildlife decline in northern Côte d'Ivoire with emphasis on the political-economic and cultural dimensions of market hunting. Hunting and the trade in wild animal meat are situated within the economic diversification strategies of impoverished farmers and the flourishing of hunter associations. The role of hunter associations is critical in the rise in the number of hunters and firearms in the case study area of Kakoli. Initia…
The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa
1. Introduction 2. The collision of empires, 1880-1911 3. The uncaptured corvee, 1912-46 4. Repackaging cotton, 1947-63 5. Making cotton work, 1964-84 6. 'To sow or not to sow': the extensification of cotton, gender politics, and rural mobilization, 1985-95 7. Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography
Hired Herders and Herd Management in Fulani Pastoralism (Northern Côte d'Ivoire)
Bassett Thomas J. Hired Herders and Herd Management in Fulani Pastoralism (Northern Côte d'Ivoire). In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 34, n°133-135, 1994. L'archipel peul. pp. 147-173
Winning coalition, sore loser
Journal Article Winning coalition, sore loser: Côte d'Ivoire's 2010 presidential elections Get access Thomas J. Bassett Thomas J. Bassett * *Thomas J. Bassett ([email protected]) is Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I would like to thank Colin Flint, Sara McLafferty, Carol Spindel, and Scott Straus for their helpful comments on an early version of this briefing. Search for other works by this author on: …
Regulation by Territorialization
IntroductionUnder the banners of environmental conservation, food security, and sustainable development, a diverse group of public and private actors is busily dividing the global South into conservation and development territories at a variety of scales. Multiple goals and processes drive these spatial strategies to reconfigure resource access, control, and management. The production of territory to regulate populations and resources has a long …
Nord musulman et Sud chrétien
Les développements médiatiques consacrés à la crise divisant la Côte d’Ivoire tendent à réduire ce conflit à un divorce entre un Nord musulman et un Sud chrétien. Ne cessant de se référer à la guerre civile en termes religieux, ils évoquent un pays divisé entre "une zone sous contrôle gouvernemental, chrétienne et animiste, au Sud et une zone tenue par les rebelles dans le Nord musulman". Une telle description géographico-culturelle fausse notre …
Capturing the Margins
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Breaking up the bottlenecks in food-crop and cotton cultivation in northern Côte d'Ivoire
IntroductionIt is widely recognised that seasonal labour bottlenecks present major obstacles to peasant farmers seeking to expand agricultural output in sub-Saharan Africa. Evidence from Nigeria and Sierra Leone, for example, reveals that labour shortages and limited income to hire off-farm labour have historically constrained rural producers from intensifying and enlarging their agricultural operations (Norman et al., 1979: 42-7; Watts, 1983: 20…
Women's Cotton and the Spaces of Gender Politics in Northern Cote d'Ivoire
Metadata only record
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 4: Letters Nos. 1242–1701
Crisis and Change in African Agriculture
The notion of a general crisis in African agriculture has entered current African development lexicon with great rapidity. In spite of questionable quality of some of most basic agricultural production statistics (see Berry, 1984), critics of quite different political and theoretical persuasion have promoted view of widespread structural stagnation (World Bank, 1981; Eicher, 1982; Lofchie and Commins, 1982). Sustained by realities of starving pea…
Fulani Herd Movements
The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783
Development theory and reality
The ‘complementarity thesis’ is that food production will benefit from the promotion of an export crop. Critics of this thesis maintain that export crops compete with food crops. Bassett argues that outcomes can only be understood in the light of the specific agrarian and political‐economic contexts in which such policies may be applied. The case of cotton in northern Ivory Coast demonstrates the issues
The Development of cotton in Northern Ivory Coast, 1910–1965
This article seeks to redress the largely contemporary bias and technologically deterministic approach of agricultural historians of cotton in francophone West Africa. It does this by arguing that the expansion of cotton since the 1960s has depended upon major socio-economic and cultural changes in agrarian production systems during the colonial period as much as on technological innovations in the post-colonial period. The study focuses on the p…
The Political Ecology of Peasant-Herder Conflicts in the Northern Ivory Coast
Following the great Sahelian drought of the early 1970s, an unprecedented number of Fulani pastoralists immigrated to the Ivory Coast with their cattle. Although welcomed by the Ivorian government for their contribution to national beef production, the Fulani's presence has been bitterly opposed by Senufo peasants in the savanna region over the problem of uncompensated crop damage. I examine the nature of peasant-herder conflicts in northern Ivor…
Coping with Hunger
Breaking up the bottlenecks in food-crop and cotton cultivation in northern Côte d'Ivoire
IntroductionIt is widely recognised that seasonal labour bottlenecks present major obstacles to peasant farmers seeking to expand agricultural output in sub-Saharan Africa. Evidence from Nigeria and Sierra Leone, for example, reveals that labour shortages and limited income to hire off-farm labour have historically constrained rural producers from intensifying and enlarging their agricultural operations (Norman et al., 1979: 42-7; Watts, 1983: 20…
From the Best Authorities’
This study goes beyond the ‘first and last appearance’ approach of cartographic historians to examine the social contexts in which the Kong Mountains were first depicted in and then eliminated from nineteenth-century maps of Africa. This history shows that the conventional periodization of the history of cartography into ‘decorative’ and ‘scientific’ phases is greatly exaggerated. We trace the mountains' origins to the geographer James Rennell an…
Agricultural Mechanization
Colonialism and development in the contemporary world
Land in African Agrarian Systems
Cartography and Empire Building in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
Land in African Agrarian Systems
Hired Herders and Herd Management in Fulani Pastoralism (Northern Côte d'Ivoire)
Bassett Thomas J. Hired Herders and Herd Management in Fulani Pastoralism (Northern Côte d'Ivoire). In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 34, n°133-135, 1994. L'archipel peul. pp. 147-173
Land in African Agrarian Systems
Land in African Agrarian Systems argues that proposals for sweeping changes in African agricultural land tenure are misconceived. Colonial administrators, African elites, and foreign aid donors have historically viewed the variety of indigenous landholding systems as obstacles to increased agricultural production and to economic progress in general, believing that only private land ownership will provide the investment security necessary for agri…
Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa
This is a collection of studies that were presented at a workshop held at the University of Florida Gainesville April 30-May 2 1988. The contributors examine the relationship between population growth and agricultural intensification through a case study approach that is sensitive to historical data. Through an examination of different high-density populations in Nigeria Rwanda Tanzania Uganda and Kenya it is possible to see changes in technology…
Environmental Discourses and the Ivorian Savanna
The African continent is portrayed in development texts as experiencing environmental crises of staggering proportions. Despite a lack of reliable data, the World Bank considers environmental degradation to be so widespread that the ‘business’ of environmental planning and regulation is now seen as a global affair. It currently requires low-income countries receiving its financial assistance to develop National Environmental Action Plans (NEAPs) …
Women's Cotton and the Spaces of Gender Politics in Northern Cote d'Ivoire
Metadata only record
Research on Agricultural Systems
Shady Practices
The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa
The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa
1. Introduction 2. The collision of empires, 1880-1911 3. The uncaptured corvee, 1912-46 4. Repackaging cotton, 1947-63 5. Making cotton work, 1964-84 6. 'To sow or not to sow': the extensification of cotton, gender politics, and rural mobilization, 1985-95 7. Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography
Nord musulman et Sud chrétien
Les développements médiatiques consacrés à la crise divisant la Côte d’Ivoire tendent à réduire ce conflit à un divorce entre un Nord musulman et un Sud chrétien. Ne cessant de se référer à la guerre civile en termes religieux, ils évoquent un pays divisé entre "une zone sous contrôle gouvernemental, chrétienne et animiste, au Sud et une zone tenue par les rebelles dans le Nord musulman". Une telle description géographico-culturelle fausse notre …
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