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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of acronyms -- Chapter One -- Introduction to Rural Zimbabwe and its challenges -- My grandfather and the agrarian issues in the 1980s -- The classic and contemporary AQ, from Japan to Zimbabwe -- So, what is the solution: Through large farms or the peasant path? -- 'Is it possible to compare Zimbabwe and Japan?' -- The Siamese twins: The State and the Market in land markets -- Cheers to agrarian populism: Chayanovian as an alternative -- Issues and themes |
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Approaches and Analysis strategy -- Chapter Two -- Some Notes on the Theory of Peasant Cooperative -- Introduction -- Linking the agrarian question to cooperatives -- Hayami Yujiro's Community-Market-State framework -- Mapping the trajectory of the global cooperative movement -- The inappropriateness of market-based cooperative theories -- Why Marxist cooperatives theories are weak -- Introduction to Alexander Chayanov -- A third-way approach -- The distinction between cooperatives & other social organisations -- Summary and conclusions |
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Chapter Three -- State, Markets, and the Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives -- Introduction -- Agricultural cooperatives and the Japanese land reform: Circumventing peasant radicalism -- Chasing after rice: The development of Japanese agriculture -- The State-Market interplay in Japan: Sites of negotiations -- Seven decades strong: The current condition of the national movement -- Summary and conclusions -- Chapter Four -- State, Markets, and the Zimbabwe Agricultural Cooperatives -- Introduction -- Agricultural cooperatives and the Zimbabwe land reform -- Results of a radicalized peasant |
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Chasing after maize: The development of Zimbabwean agriculture -- The State-Market interplay in Zimbabwe: Sites of peasant exploitation -- Twenty+20 years of interruption: The current condition of the national movement -- Summary and conclusions -- Chapter Five -- Field evidence -- Current trends and patterns in Japanese Agricultural Cooperative System -- Introduction -- Characteristics of survey participants in Japan -- Japanese farmers' narratives: A bag of mixed emotions -- Nature of amendments to the Japanese Agricultural cooperative law -- Contemporary issues in Japanese Agriculture |
| Summary |
Comparing the Zimbabwean and Japanese agrarian experience may sound impossible. Still, the similarities in the socio-economic and political realities of their respective radical land reforms and grain policies provide scope for such an endeavour. This book examines the aftermath of Japan's radical land reform and the development of her cooperatives. It then compares it to the nature and character of the Zimbabwe post-land reform agrarian structure. The author collected and analysed data from three villages in Japan, and three in Zimbabwe to understand different types of cooperatives, their growths, and constraints. Three distinct types of cooperatives emerged from Japan's 70-year experience in cooperative development. One of these three was identified as providing more relevant lessons necessary for restructuring the British-Indian type of cooperatives currently obtaining in Zimbabwe. The central argument is that the radical Fast-Track Land Reform Programme provided a rare platform (as it did in Japan) to develop robust, genuine grassroots cooperatives from below. Based on a global political economy reading of agricultural production, the book sieves the pros and cons of the Japanese agricultural cooperative system with knowledge systems from the Zimbabwe movement to advance a new agricultural cooperative development framework for Zimbabwe and other post-colonial states |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Agriculture, Cooperative -- Japan
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Agriculture, Cooperative -- Zimbabwe
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Land reform -- Japan
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Land reform -- Zimbabwe
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African history.
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LAW / Land Use.
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Agriculture, Cooperative
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Land reform
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Japan
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Zimbabwe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789956551583 |
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9956551589 |
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