Visions of sustainable development and the future of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (and beyond)

被引：1

作者：

Boda, Chad S. ^{[1
]}

Akorsu, Angela Dziedzom ^{[2
]}

Armah, Frederick Ato ^{[2
]}

Atwiine, Adrine ^{[3
]}

Byaruhanga, Ronald ^{[4
]}

Chambati, Walter ^{[5
]}

Ekumah, Bernard ^{[4
]}

Faran, Turaj ^{[6
]}

Hombey, Charles Tetteh ^{[7
]}

Isgren, Ellinor ^{[4
,8
]}

Jerneck, Anne ^{[4
]}

Mazwi, Freedom ^{[5
]}

Mpofu, Elizabeth ^{[9
]}

Ndhlovu, Delmah ^{[10
]}

Ocen, Laury ^{[11
]}

Sibanda, Michaelin ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Malmo Univ, Fac Culture & Soc, Unit Built Environm & Environm Studies, S-21119 Malmo, Sweden

[2] Univ Cape Coast, Dept Labour & Human Resource Studies, Cape Coast, Ghana

[3] Eastern & Southern Afr Small Scale Farmers Forum E, Kampala, Uganda

[4] Lund Univ, Ctr Sustainabil Studies LUCSUS, Lund, Sweden

[5] Sam Moyo African Inst Agrarian Studies SMAIAS, Harare, Zimbabwe

[6] Lund Univ, Dept Econ Hist, Lund, Sweden

[7] Peasant Farmers Assoc Ghana PFAG, Accra, Ghana

[8] Gothenburg Univ, Sch Global Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden

[9] La Via Campesina LVC, Harare, Zimbabwe

[10] MRC Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

[11] Lira Univ, Dept Epidemiol & Biostat, Lira, Uganda

来源：

FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS | 2024年 / 8卷

基金：

瑞典研究理事会;

关键词：

rural development; capital theory; capabilities approach; collective action & social movements; development theory; CAPABILITY APPROACH; AGRICULTURE;

D O I：

10.3389/fsufs.2024.1357574

中图分类号：

TS2 [食品工业];

学科分类号：

0832 ;

摘要：

Smallholder farmers are widely touted as essential to sustainable agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. But what exactly is meant by sustainable development, and how are smallholder farmers expected to contribute to it? In this perspective, we describe and assess two competing visions of sustainable development, namely Capital Theory and the Capabilities approach, paying special attention to the major yet divergent repercussions each approach implies for the future of smallholder farmers and the activities of their representative organizations. We present the core concepts, tools and practices stemming from each sustainable development perspective, and from a critique of these motivate the superiority of a capabilities approach as more conducive to smallholder farmers wellbeing now and in the future. In doing so, we bring to the fore the pivotal role smallholder farmer organizations and rural social movements, as collective vehicles for smallholder political agency, play in strategically advocating for the conditions that support sustainable and just smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

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