Socio-economic perspective of agriculture in the Caribbean
1987
Beckford, G. (West Indies Univ., Mona (Jamaica). Dept of Economics)
Points to the two features of the Caribbean society that generated the present lethargic under-development state of Caribbean agriculture. There are: duality within the agricultural sector and plurality within the society. These characterestics created a truncated society in which agriculture and farming activity are cut off from non-agriculture and non-farming activity. As long as this gap exists, the Caribbean society will remain in its present condition of dependent under-development unable to generate within itself the self-sustained processes of development and growth that other developed societies in the world have in fact achieved. Stresses the point that it is within the peasant sector and among the peasantry as a whole that resides the possibility for development and change in Caribbean society. The problems of agriculture in the Caribbean lie principally, therefore, within the category of the small peasantry, who constitute the bulk of producers. One of the most powerful points stressed had to do with the notion that the demise of the peasantry had to do with the demise of society itself.
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