Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-94fs2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-07T07:51:20.396Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Agricultural Modernisation Strategies Among Ghanaian Farmers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Andrew J. Sofranko ,
Frederick C. Fliegel  and
William R. Pletcher
Andrew J. Sofranko
Affiliation:
Departments of Agricultural Economics and Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana1
Frederick C. Fliegel
Affiliation:
Departments of Agricultural Economics and Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana1
William R. Pletcher
Affiliation:
Departments of Agricultural Economics and Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana1
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The major problem of agriculture in Africa has been the low productivity of the traditional sector. The general thrust of development strategies to this point has been towards providing opportunities to small-holders and ‘encouraging agricultural development within existing peasant production units’. This essentially laissez-faire approach has emphasised the need to improve producer incentives and the necessary infrastructure, as well as to provide new crop varieties and modern agricultural inputs in general. Social scientists, in turn, have studied the general question of how farmers respond to changes in incentives and, especially, to the availability of technological innovations.

Type
Africana
Information
The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1976 , pp. 706 - 712
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 706 note 2 Cowan, L. Gray, ‘The Political and Administrative Setting for Rural Development’, in Arkhurst, Frederick S. (ed.), Africa in the Seventies and Eighties (New York, 1970), p. 95Google Scholar.

page 706 note 3 Rogers, Everett M. and Shoemaker, F. Floyd, Communication of Innovations: a cross cultural approach (New York, 1971)Google Scholar.

page 706 note 4 Wharton, Clifton R. Jr, ‘The Green Revolution: Cornucopia or Pandora's box?’, in Foreign Affairs (New York), 47, 04 1969, pp. 454–76Google Scholar.

page 706 note 5 See, for example, Inkeles, Alex, ‘Making Men Modern: on the causes and consequences of individual change in six developing countries’, in American Journal of Sociology (Chicago), 75, 09 1969, pp. 208–25Google Scholar; and also Lerner, Daniel, The Passing of Traditional Society (Glencoe, 1958)Google Scholar.

page 707 note 1 Kurenchi, Percival Alfred, ‘Modal Farm Plans for Tobacco Farmers in Ejura and Wenchi’ M.A. thesis in Agricultural Economics, University of Ghana, Legon, 1971Google Scholar.

page 708 note 1 Feldman, David, ‘An Assessment of Alternative Policy Strategies in the Agricultural Development of Tanzania and their Application to Tobacco Farming in Iringa’, in East African Journal of Rural Development (Kampala), 3, 1970, pp. 1–29Google Scholar.

page 708 note 2 Ruthenberg, Hans (ed.), Smallholder Farming and Smaliholder Development in Tanzania: ten case studies (Munich, 1968), pp. 327–55Google Scholar.

page 709 note 1 Katz, Elihu, Levin, Martin L., and Hamilton, Herbert, ‘Traditions of Research on the Diffusion of Innovations’, in American Sociological Review (New York), 28, 04 1963, p. 273–52Google Scholar.

page 711 note 1 Inkeles, loc. cit.

page 712 note 1 Cf. Kahl, Joseph, The Measurement of Modernism (Austin, 1968)Google Scholar, and also Smith, David Horton and Inkeles, Alex, ‘The OM Scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity’, in Sociometty (New York), 4, 12 1966, pp. 353–77Google Scholar.