Modernising the village: State farms, agricultural development, and nation-building in 1960s Ghana (2022)
This article analyses the development of state-controlled farms in Ghana in the 1960s. To boost the economy of the new nation, Nkrumah focused on agricultural development for the export and domestic markets to increase national revenue but also availability of affordable foodstuffs through state farms and co-operative farms. These farms became rural sites of modernisation, as modern and mechanised agricultural farming methods were implemented. Farm machinery and vehicles were visible and tangible signs of progress and modernity. This in combination with the unprecedented employment opportunities on state-controlled farms created support for Nkrumah in rural areas, thereby fostering state-society relations. The article is specifically interested in state-led post-independence agricultural modernisation, and contributes a rural perspective on processes of decolonisation, rural nation-building, and the transition to socialism.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Uekōtter, Frank;
(2014)
Why Panaceas Work: Recasting Science, Knowledge, and Fertilizer Interests in German Agriculture
(/isis/citation/CBB001320830/)
Article
Venus Bivar;
(2019)
Agricultural High Modernism and Land Reform in Postwar France
(/isis/citation/CBB796568829/)
Article
Gareth Austin;
(2014)
Vent for surplus or productivity breakthrough? The Ghanaian cocoa take-off, c. 1890–1936
(/isis/citation/CBB928283075/)
Thesis
Smith, Jenny Leigh;
(2006)
The Soviet Farm Complex: Industrial Agriculture in a Socialist Context, 1945--1965
(/isis/citation/CBB001561283/)
Book
Marez, Curtis;
(2016)
Farm worker futurism: speculative technologies of resistance
(/isis/citation/CBB095155438/)
Book
Jennie Leigh Smith;
(2014)
Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930–1963
(/isis/citation/CBB684508968/)
Book
Kevin M. Lowe;
(2015)
Baptized with the Soil: Christian Agrarians and the Crusade for Rural America
(/isis/citation/CBB531772258/)
Book
Henke, Christopher R.;
(2008)
Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California
(/isis/citation/CBB000950314/)
Book
Tom Philpott;
(2020)
Perilous Bounty: The looming collapse of American farming and how we can prevent it
(/isis/citation/CBB168245542/)
Article
Anne Effland;
(2021)
Small Farms/Family Farms: Tracing a History of Definitions and Meaning
(/isis/citation/CBB720739392/)
Article
Nataliia Kovalenko;
(2021)
Vasyl Pastushenko’s Scientific School in the Development of Soil Protection Technologies in Ukraine
(/isis/citation/CBB703628311/)
Book
Louis A. Ferleger;
John D. Metz;
(2014)
Cultivating Success in the South: Farm Households in the Postbellum Era
(/isis/citation/CBB064809821/)
Book
Whayne, Jeannie M.;
(2011)
Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South
(/isis/citation/CBB001200642/)
Article
Hamilton, Shane;
(2014)
Agribusiness, the Family Farm, and the Politics of Technological Determinism in the Post--World War II United States
(/isis/citation/CBB001421293/)
Book
Lucas, Anton E;
Warren, Carol;
(2013)
Land for the People: The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia
(/isis/citation/CBB001422260/)
Book
Conkin, Paul K.;
(2008)
A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
(/isis/citation/CBB000953948/)
Book
Rogers, Thomas D.;
(2010)
The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil
(/isis/citation/CBB001211190/)
Article
Mary Summers;
(2021)
A Dog with a Bone: A Critique of Paul Taylor’s Small-Farm Essentialism
(/isis/citation/CBB519115951/)
Book
Derek Oden;
(2017)
Harvest of hazards: Family farming, accidents, and expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940-1975
(/isis/citation/CBB809274641/)
Book
Derry, Margaret Elsinor;
(2012)
Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens
(/isis/citation/CBB001320966/)
Be the first to comment!