Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa

Martin Prowse, Paul Grassin

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
19 December 2019

Politics & government; Political economy; Tobacco industry; Agricultural science

This book takes the reader through the expansion, restructuring and possible salvation of Malawi’s main industry, tobacco. Malawi has been dependent on tobacco exports for a century, but now, with demand for Malawian tobacco declining fast, the country needs to diversify rapidly. The authors combine an innovative range of theory and methods to provide a comprehensive and incisive analysis of the dilemmas faced by countries which still rely on a limited number of agricultural commodities in the 21st century. This work will be ideal for scholars and researchers interested in political economy and African development.

By: Martin Prowse, Paul Grassin
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9783030339845
ISBN 10: 303033984X
Pages: 139
Publication Date: 19 December 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction.- 2. Smallholder Burley Reform Process and Maize Production in Malawi 1990 – 2005.- 3. A Comparative Value Chain Analysis of Smallholder Production - 2003/4 and 2009/10.- 4. Traceability and the Global Tobacco Value Chain.- 5. Brokers and Bondage at the Coalface of Contract Farming.- 6. Competition and the Institutional Architecture for Contract Farming.- 7. A Very Short Political Economy of Malawi.- 8. Conclusion.

Martin Prowse is Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. He has worked at the Overseas Development Institute, UK, and at universities in Belgium, Denmark and Sweden. His research focuses on equity in agricultural intensification, value chains and climate change, mostly in Africa. Paul Grassin is a Researcher at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with expertise in social stratification, cultural anthropology and comparative politics. His research focuses on the production of social order, the sociology of the police and police-people relations in urban and rural Malawi.

Reviews for Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa

The monograph is an informative, if short (139 pages), study of Malawi's main income earner, the tobacco sector, with a specific focus on smallholder burley tobacco production. ... The authors use quantitative and qualitative methods with value chain and political economic analyses to raise questions and suggest answers for the tobacco sector, particularly smallholder burley tobacco production, and for broader economic development. (Pauline E. Peters, Journal of Agrarian Change, May, 2020)