| | The main articles that have been collected together in this Special Double Issue all deal in some way with one of the two basic processes of change in African agriculture that have been set in motion by the impact of capitalism. The first is the decline in the food producing capability of different societies beginning in the colonial period and continuing to the present. The second is the transformation of rural production relations both in terms of the development of distinct classes and the change in the relations between men and women brought about by a new sexual division of labour., |
