The Making of Global Exploitation Chains

<p class=p1 style=margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;><font color=#000000 style=><span style=font-size: 18px;>In recent years export horticulture for European markets has been promoted </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>across sub-Saharan Africa as a rural development strategy. International donors </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>and local governments argue that expanding fruit-and-vegetable exports can </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>spur economic transformation and reduce poverty-by linking smallholders to </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>exporters and European supermarkets through contract farming and by creating </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>wage employment in farms and packhouses. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>Tanzania this book challenges that narrative revealing widespread exploitation </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>within supermarket-driven supply chains alongside deepening rural inequalities </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>and forms of resistance. Foregrounding the dynamics of unequal incorporation </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>it advances the concept of global exploitation chains: vertically coordinated systems </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>that systematically shift risks and costs downward-from supermarkets in </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>the Global North to exporters to farmers and ultimately onto the most vulnerable </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>in the Global South namely (female) workers impoverished by decades of </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>failed development policies. Ultimately the book offers fresh insights into agrarian</span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;> transformation and uneven development trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa </span></font><font color=#000000><span style=font-size: 18px;>under globalisation.</span></font></p>