Outputs (4)

Contract Farming (2021)
Book Chapter
Pérez Niño, H., & Oya, C. (2021). Contract Farming. In A. Akram-Lodhi, K. Dietz, B. Engels, & B. McKay (Eds.), Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies (417-426). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972468.00057

Contract farming is an arrangement in which buyers request farmers to provide agricultural goods under contract, as opposed to procuring these in spot markets. This chapter provides an introduction to contract farming and explains its significance an... Read More about Contract Farming.

Is the system of rice intensification (SRI) pro poor? Labour, class and technological change in West Africa (2021)
Journal Article
Graf, S. L., & Oya, C. (2021). Is the system of rice intensification (SRI) pro poor? Labour, class and technological change in West Africa. Agricultural Systems, 193, Article 103229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103229

CONTEXT: Increasing numbers of young people enter Sub-Saharan Africa's labour markets each year while industrial jobs only grow slowly. As 62% of Sub-Saharan Africans work in agriculture and as the rural population will continue to rise, agriculture... Read More about Is the system of rice intensification (SRI) pro poor? Labour, class and technological change in West Africa.

Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour (2021)
Journal Article
Pattenden, J., Campling, L., Castañón Ballivián, E., Gras, C., Lerche, J., O'Laughlin, B., Oya, C., Pérez Niño, H., & Sinha, S. (2021). Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. Journal of Agrarian Change, 21(3), 582-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12440

Covid-19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explores prelimi... Read More about Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour.

The politics of labour relations in global production networks: collective action, industrial parks, and local conflict in the Ethiopian apparel sector (2021)
Journal Article
Oya, C., & Schaefer, F. (2021). The politics of labour relations in global production networks: collective action, industrial parks, and local conflict in the Ethiopian apparel sector. World Development, 146, Article 105564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105564

In this paper we examine the emerging politics of labour agency as new manufacturing locations are incorporated into existing global production networks, using the example of the Ethiopian apparel industry. The Ethiopian state has employed an active... Read More about The politics of labour relations in global production networks: collective action, industrial parks, and local conflict in the Ethiopian apparel sector.