Dialogue Series #04 - Revisiting the Land and Agrarian Questions in Africa
Channel: NETEL • UFABC
Date: 2020-12-04

Tópico
Revisiting the Land and Agrarian Questions in Africa
Descrição
Spectres of Crisis, Rays of Hope
Dialogue Series #4: Revisiting the Land and Agrarian Questions in Africa

Agrarian transition in Africa has been stalled for the last six decades. Land-based social reproduction thus remains crucial for many people. Yet the latter is bedevilled by a multiplex of crises reflected in widespread gendered poverty, hunger and food insecurity. The entrenchment of the penetration of (foreign) capital in rural areas, with state support, has until now failed to transform the countryside. Not only did the COVID 19 pandemic magnify the protracted agrarian crisis, but it also decimated ‘vulnerable’ formal employment. The re-peasantisation that ensued reinforces the importance of land in social reproduction. It is in this context that in the fourth session of our Dialogue Series we are revisiting the land and agrarian questions with a view of mapping out possibilities for the much-needed re-organisation of the agrarian sector that requires urgent attention.

Dr Walter Chambati is Executive Director of The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe, and Associate Editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. He has published extensively on land, labour and agrarian relations in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. He is co-editor of Rethinking the Social Sciences with Sam Moyo (Tulika Books, 2020), as well as of the forthcoming Labour Questions in the Global South (Springer) and Farming and Working under Contract: Peasants and Workers in Global Agricultural Value Systems (Tulika Books).

Key Speaker
Walter Chambati, Executive Director, The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Discussant
Archana Prasad
Professor, CISLS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Moderator
Masego Madzwamuse
CEO, Southern Africa Trust, South Africa

Book Release
Rethinking the Social Sciences with Sam Moyo
(with co-editors Paris Yeros & Praveen Jha)
Horário
26 ago 2020 06:30 PM em Índia