| | 'What is to be done?' poses the following 'alternative approaches to agriculture' : smallholder cash-cropping, capitalist farming, integrated rural development and rural emigration. As Shenton notes, what is odd that clearly none of these is anything like an 'alternative' to what is presently happening in West African agriculture. The first three are tried strategies for rural development and the fourth is a fact of life. Why they should be presented as anything else is not only a puzzle but, perhaps more importantly, a sympton of the unresolved contradictions of this book, as Shenton goes on to illustrate, especially the role of USAID. |
