Overview
- Explores the dilemmas faced by countries which still rely on a limited number of agricultural commodities in the 21st century
- Examines the role elites and international firms play in the distribution of profits from the main industry
- Captures the ‘development dilemma’ not just in Central Africa but across much of the Global South
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“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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa
Authors: Martin Prowse, Paul Grassin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33985-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33984-5Published: 19 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33987-6Published: 19 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33985-2Published: 10 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 139
Topics: International Political Economy, African Politics, Agricultural Economics