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Dynamics of change in a ‘female farming system’, Mbanza Kongo/ Northern Angola
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The inhabitants of the Zaire Province of northern Angola, belonging to different
subgroups of the Bakongo, offer an interesting case to study social and agricultural
change in what Boserup would call a traditional ‘female farming system’. Since the
1930s, several factors have produced multiple dynamics of change – sometimes
abrupt and other times gradual – in both livelihoods and the gender relations of
agricultural production. Of these, the paper is going to highlight late colonial
intervention, the anticolonial war, the long civil war, the economic boom after the
end of the war and the recent economic crisis. While colonial interventions reinforced
women’s role as food producers, the wars acted in the opposite direction by
increasing the participation of (non-conscripted into the military) men in agriculture
for those who took refuge in the then Republic of Congo. The economic boom that
followed the end of the civil war opened income-earning opportunities out of
agriculture for young men, but the recent fall in the international oil price reversed
this trend, and agriculture – as a sole occupation or combined with casual off-farm
jobs – became again a way out of hunger and poverty
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gender relations of production post-war reconstruction livelihoods reagrarianization food security
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Marina Padrão Temudo & Pedro Talhinhas (2019) Dynamics of change in a ‘female farming system’, Mbanza Kongo/Northern Angola, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 46:2, 258-275
Editora
Routledge