No Condition Is Permanent
The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3185477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lina Fruzzetti, Lina M Fruzzetti |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 694 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, Sara S Berry, 1993 |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/220797 |
| OpenAlex | W1981952820 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
No Condition Is Permanent, a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara Berry's theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book explores the complex way African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labour, offering a comparative study of agrarian change in four rural economies in sub-Saharan Africa. These include two that experienced long periods of expanding peasant production for export (southern Ghana and southwestern Nigeria ), a settler economy (central Kenya), and a rural labour reserve (northeastern Zambia). The resources available to African farmers have changed dramatically over the course of the 20th century. Berry asserts that the various ways resources are acquired and used are shaped not only by the incorporation of a rural area into colonial (later national) and global political economies, but also by conflicts over culture, power, and property within and beyond rural communities. By tracing the various debates over rights to resources and their effects on agricultural production and farmers' uses of income. Berry presents agrarian change as a series of on-going processes rather than a set of discrete successes and failures. No Condition Is Permanent aims to show how multi-disciplinary studies of focal agrarian history can constructively contribute to development policy. The book is designed to be a contribution both to African agrarian history and to debates over the role of agriculture in Africa's recent economic crises
Agrarian reform · Agrarian system · Peasant · African history and culture studies · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Land Rights and Reforms
“Odum will take forever to grow”
Political Environments, Elite Co-Option, and Conflict
Agro-environmental Transitions in African Mountains
Evolution of Customary Land Tenure Institutions in Zambia
Land and Contestations over Autochthony and Local Citizenship in Agrarian Ghana
Relational Economies, Social Embeddedness and Valuing Labour in Agrarian Change
From LTER to LTSER
The Integration of Multiple Layers of Land Ownership, Property Titles and Rights of the Ashanti People in Ghana
Criteria Specification in Land Reform Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Agricultural labour dynamics in small-scale farming systems in rural South Africa
Soil erosion in the West African Sahel
Gendered Emotional Support and Women's Well-Being in a Low-Income Urban African Setting
Transforming Mozambique
Political Topographies of the African State
The making of a 'charismatic' carbon credit
Tension at the Nexus of the Global and Local
Neither sustainable nor inclusive
Immigrants, 'Traditional' Leaders and the Rhodesian State
Disruption without transformation
Institutional Arrangements for Water Resource Use
The 1999 Tanzania land acts as a community lands approach
American plants in Sub-Saharan Africa
Timber access in the Indian Himalaya
The Changing Faces of Farmer-Led Irrigation
Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana
Decoupled Implementation of New-Wave Land Reforms
Women’s Resistance
Making Development Agents
State building in the African countryside
Gardening on the Edge
Labor, Ecology, and a Failed Agenda of Market Incentives
Dealing with weedy problems in agriculture
Ecology of Rule
Agriculture, Environment, and Sustainable Development in Nigeria
City Requiem, Calcutta
Africa Since 1940
States at Work
At the Edge of the Storm
“They Call It Shangri-La”
Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex
The Study of Borderlands Consumption
El Dompe , Los Yonkes , and Las Segundas
Confined to the Margins
Drawing Boundaries between Markets, Nations, and Peoples, 1650-1940
Elements of Socio-Cultural Positioning in Africa
Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone.
Using and Sharing
African Studies
Beyond Ecoliberal “Common Futures”
Disrupting Boundaries
Finding Mexico’s Great Show Window
Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Selling the Border
Domesticating the Border
On La Frontera and Cultures of Consumption
Promoting the Pacific Borderlands
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation
Sterically Hindered Ketones via Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling of Amides by N–C(O) Activation
Developmentalism
Coerced Labor in Twentieth-Century Africa
Cocoa Farming in Cameroon, c. 1914 – c. 1960
Africans and the Colonial Economy
Slave voices in African colonial courts
Kenya’s Four Ages of Ethnicity
Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa
Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa
Ethnic diversity, social sanctions, and public goods in Kenya
Women, Wives and Land Rights in Africa
Revisiting the Social Bedrock of Kinship and Descent in the Anthropology of Africa
De-/Fencing Grasslands
Welfare regimes in development contexts
Informal security regimes
Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America
The dynamics of Africa's in/security regimes
Conceptualising in/security regimes
Latin America
Men in Paradise
Agrarian Change and the Changing Relationships Between Toil and Soil in Maragoli, Western Kenya (1900-1994)
Land Use and Land Right Dynamics-Determinants for Resource Management Options in Eastern Burkina Faso
"From Village Land to "Native Reserve
Plant Transfers in Historical Perspective
Disenfranchising young people from customary land access; a case of commercialised cashew production in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana
Does weather index-based insurance adoption influence Cocoa Output? An endogenous swicth regression approach
Resisting forestry sector reform
Enabling modernisation, marginalising alternatives? Kenya's agricultural policy and smallholders
A green revolution in sub‐Saharan Africa? The transformation of Ethiopia's agricultural sector
Prosperity, penury and polarization
Economic Differentiation and Export Crop Production in a Ghanaian Village
Development Expert and Political Entrepreneur -Development as an Arena of Social Interaction
Collective Work Group of Children and Married Women in Rural Mali
The Economy of Affection and the Moral Economy in Comparative Perspective
Market Economic Behavior and Moral Economic Behavior in Farmers' Livelihoods
The land use decides its ownership pattern
“On the Raggedy Edge of Risk”
The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-based Societies
Spirit Discipline
Afterword
Intimate Publics
Selections from Castaway
“Sinful Propensities”
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |