Article ID: CBB636631554

Origins and Pathways of Agricultural Demonstration in Lesotho, Southern Africa, 1924-1960s (2019)

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In 1924 the agricultural department in Lesotho, southern Africa, launched a demonstration program whereby local men performed rural outreach. Studies of agricultural demonstration in Africa and elsewhere have focused on the ways colonial and segregationist states deployed knowledge and policy via demonstrators to control people and landscapes. This article complicates this important position by arguing that the problems and possibilities of agricultural demonstration, which today remains central to agrarian policy in many countries, must be situated at the intersection of political, economic, and ecological processes operating across multiple scales. This story involves agricultural networks in the British Empire and the American South, and focuses especially on farmers, demonstrators, and politicians in Lesotho and South Africa. Most importantly, local narratives from mountainous Lesotho show that the location of demonstrations, the identity of the demonstrators, and their changing priorities and approaches were key factors in determining how these programs unfolded.

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Authors & Contributors
Sunseri, Thaddeus
Conte, Christopher A.
Luna, Kathryn M. de
Ukelina, Bekeh Utietiang
Fields-Black, Edda L.
Thorsen, Live Emma
Concepts
Agriculture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Colonialism
Slavery and slaves
Plantations
Great Britain, colonies
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Africa
Atlantic world
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
São Tomé and Príncipe
Lesotho
Barbados
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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