Agribusiness in Africa. A Study of the Impact of Big Business on Africa's Food and Agricultural Production

London England: Earth Resources Research, 1983. Paperback. Agribusiness In Africa. Slight mark to edge. Tiny crease to corner front cover. This book provides, for the first time, a detailed analaysis of the role of big business in Africa's agriculture. It exposed the past and present activities of foreign companies in the diversion of much of Africa's food potential to the cash crop demands of Europe. Most aspects of company activity are illustrated with examples and there is a detailed description of trade and investment in coffee, sugar and the newer luxury crops such as flowers and vegetables. The attitude of the governments of Tanzania and Kenya towards agribusiness investment are contrasted and the book ends with a look at perhaps the most ominous of recent developments - Africa's increasing dependence on transnational supplied, large scale food production shemes. 224 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Paperback.