| Titre | Les grandes entreprises de culture et la promotion des paysans en Côte-d'Ivoire | |
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| Auteur | Anne-Marie Pillet-Schwartz | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 70, 1978 | |
| Page | 65-79 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Great Cultivation Enterprises and Peasant Promotion in Ivory Coast.
The Ivory Coast Government, aware of the preponderance of agriculture in national economy, undertook a series of sectorial operations on the morrow of independence. Support could be obtained from State or joint societies, the SODE, which were promoted and consolidated, each crop separately. As a rule, the social and economic aim assigned to each of them was the peasant productivity and promotion. Actually, they may be classified along a scale sliding from plain production to plain officering.
The four cases presented in this paper do exemplify the different levels of the peasantry's insertion into, and participation in, those societies' undertakings. The first one scarcely allows them any room and part in the decision-making; but, on the contrary, in the fourth one — where crops are grown on individual lots — they bear full responsibility for the production.
Whatever the part peasants may be granted, whatever the "agreement" they may be offered, their promotion is but casual, it is just a "means" to them — sometimes out of sheer fatality. Besides, is it not Utopian, indeed, to claim that human development can be achieved through sectorial operations? Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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