Africans on the Land

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Montague Yudelman is persuaded that if Africans south of the Sahara are to satisfy their growing aspirations, they must first expand their present exchange economy. For this, agricultural resources, now locked in purely subsistence economy, must be used to greater advantage than they are. Focusing on Southern Rhodesia, where a recent governmental program highlights many institutional problems of development to be found in underdeveloped countries, the author analyzes policies, programs, and traditions that foster or inhibit the productivity of African agriculture.