Contestations and Resistance in the Sugarcane Economy in Mumias, Kenya
The study is an examination of how agricultural intensification as a development paradigm gets entangled in farming processes of its adaptation and utilisation. Through qualitative research, it analyses the relationship around agricultural inputs and science for production of sugarcane, between farm...
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| description | The study is an examination of how agricultural intensification as a development paradigm gets entangled in farming processes of its adaptation and utilisation. Through qualitative research, it analyses the relationship around agricultural inputs and science for production of sugarcane, between farmers and Mumias Sugar Company Limited (Mumias Sugar) in western Kenya. The article demonstrates the potency of farmers’ resistance to aspects of intensification that stifle their control over the processes of sugarcane production and erode social and economic benefits they derive from sugarcane production. Strengthening the capacities of African farmers to adapt paradigms in ways that place their agroeconomies and benefits in their hands is thus emphasised. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-30885d86fdd14035bbf2d6d8a46daa3c2024-02-13T15:52:16ZengInstituto Universitário de LisboaCadernos de Estudos Africanos1645-37942182-740041376110.4000/cea.6226Contestations and Resistance in the Sugarcane Economy in Mumias, KenyaPeter NarhThe study is an examination of how agricultural intensification as a development paradigm gets entangled in farming processes of its adaptation and utilisation. Through qualitative research, it analyses the relationship around agricultural inputs and science for production of sugarcane, between farmers and Mumias Sugar Company Limited (Mumias Sugar) in western Kenya. The article demonstrates the potency of farmers’ resistance to aspects of intensification that stifle their control over the processes of sugarcane production and erode social and economic benefits they derive from sugarcane production. Strengthening the capacities of African farmers to adapt paradigms in ways that place their agroeconomies and benefits in their hands is thus emphasised.https://journals.openedition.org/cea/6226intensificationsugarcane productionagrorelationshipsfarmer resistance |
| spellingShingle | Peter Narh Contestations and Resistance in the Sugarcane Economy in Mumias, Kenya Cadernos de Estudos Africanos intensification sugarcane production agrorelationships farmer resistance |
| title | Contestations and Resistance in the Sugarcane Economy in Mumias, Kenya |
| title_full | Contestations and Resistance in the Sugarcane Economy in Mumias, Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Contestations and Resistance in the Sugarcane Economy in Mumias, Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contestations and Resistance in the Sugarcane Economy in Mumias, Kenya |
| title_short | Contestations and Resistance in the Sugarcane Economy in Mumias, Kenya |
| title_sort | contestations and resistance in the sugarcane economy in mumias kenya |
| topic | intensification sugarcane production agrorelationships farmer resistance |
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