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Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa's GDP, the region's biggest source of employment and its largest food producer. However, agricultural productivity remains low and buyer-driven global value chains offer few opportunities for small producers to upgrade into higher value-added activities. In recent years, the revival of Africa's cooperatives has been celebrated by governments and international donors as a pathway towards inclusive agricultural development, and this book explores the strengths but also the issues which surround these cooperatives. The book scrutinizes the neoliberal ideal of economic prosperity arising through the operation of liberalized labor markets by illuminating the discriminatory nature of Uganda's informal labor relations. It points to the role of cooperatives as a potential instrument of progressive change in African export agriculture, where large numbers of small producers depend on casual wage work in addition to farming. In contrast to the portrayal, advanced by some governments and rarely questioned by donors, of an unproblematic co-existence of small producers' collective action and big capital interests, the author calls for a re-politicized debate on the Social and Solidarity Economy. As part of this, she highlights the adverse political and economic conditions faced by African cooperatives, including intense international competition in agricultural processing, inadequate access to infrastructure and services, and at times antagonistic state-cooperative relations. Supported by wide-ranging interdisciplinary evidence, including new ethnographic, survey and interview data, this book shows how cooperatives may be co-opted by both the state and corporations in a discourse that ignores structural inequalities in value chains and emphasizes poverty reduction over economic and political empowerment. It provides a critique of New Institutional Economics as a framework for understanding how institutions shape redistribution, and develops a political economy approach to explore the conditions for structural change in African export agriculture.

Agriculture, Cooperative --- Agricultural laborers --- Coffee industry

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Agricultural laborers --- Child labor --- Cocoa trade --- Government policy

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Agricultural laborers, Foreign --- Migrant agricultural laborers --- Visas --- Foreign workers --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Government policy --- United States.

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Aquest llibre aborda les causes de l’anomenat plet dels rabassaires en el període clau de la seva història, el primer terç del segle xx, a partir de l’anàlisi del desenvolupament de la vitivinicultura, de l’estructura de la propietat i de les característiques de les famílies pageses a la regió vinícola del Penedès, principal focus del moviment en aquest període. L’obra explica com des de l’acció col·lectiva es va afrontar la situació crítica de la vitivinicultura mitjançant l’acció sindical, el cooperativisme i la política.

Viticulture --- Agriculture, Cooperative --- Agricultural laborers --- viticultura --- History --- History --- Labor unions --- History --- viticultura

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"The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten. From the cloisters of the Christian Brothers and the halls of secondary education to the fields of Central California and the streets of Sacramento, Chatfield's story reveals a fierce commitment to those who were denied the promises of the American dream. In this collection of what the author calls Easy Essays, Chatfield recounts his childhood, explains the social issues that have played a significant role in his life and work, and uncovers the lack of justice he saw all too frequently. His journey, alongside Cesar and Helen Chavez, Marshall Ganz, Bonnie Chatfield, Philip Vera Cruz, and countless others, displays an unwavering focus on organizing communities and expanding their agency. Follow and explore a life dedicated to equality of opportunity for all. May it inspire and guide you in your quest for a fairer and more just society"--

Labor leaders --- Political activists --- Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers --- Labor movement --- Social justice --- Migrant agricultural laborers, Mexican American --- Migrant agricultural laborers --- Equality --- Justice --- History --- Chatfield, LeRoy, --- Chavez, Cesar, --- Chavez, Cesar Estrada, --- Friends and associates. --- United Farm Workers of America --- UFW --- Unión de Campesinos de América --- United Farm Workers --- United States --- Social conditions