Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction

Autor: Martin Prowse, Helena Pérez Niño
Přispěvatelé: Academic staff unit
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Southern African Studies, 48(2), 221-233. Routledge
ISSN: 1465-3893
0305-7070
DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2022.2096773
Popis: For more than a century, tobacco has been a key source of export revenues for both Zimbabwe and Malawi, and, in the past 30 years, production has expanded to parts of Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. The crop continues to be the main livelihood option for millions of citizens in southern Africa, an important source of income and rural employment and one of the few industries in which the region commands a large share of the global market. Combined, exports are almost equivalent to those of Brazil, the world’s largest tobacco exporter. Despite this sizeable footprint, tobacco has been relatively neglected in the literature on development trajectories and the political economy of the region.
Databáze: OpenAIRE