Small farm production and the standardization of tropical products

Daviron Benoit. 2002. Small farm production and the standardization of tropical products. Journal of Agrarian Change, 2 (2) : 162-184.

Liste HCERES des revues (en SHS) : oui

Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Histoire; Histoire, histoire de l'art, archéologie

Note générale : Special Issue : Global commodity chains and african export agriculture

Résumé : This paper explores the historical relations between labour organization and product qualification in the production of tropical agricultural exports. In supplying international markets for tropical products, peasant farming emerged as the norm for labour organization after the First World War, competing with the large plantations and different systems of forced labour. During the same period, national standards became the dominant tool for product qualification of commodities traded on the global agricultural markets. These standards allow the creation of futures markets and the emergence of traders, instead of auction markets and commission merchants: two changes that were the basis of the subsequent international marketing of peasant-produced commodities. The last part of the paper considers the potential consequences of the current erosion of standards for the position of peasants in tropical export crop cultivation.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : commerce international, exportation, petite exploitation agricole, produit agricole, qualité, classification

Classification Agris : E71 - Commerce international
E16 - Économie de la production

Auteurs et affiliations

• Daviron Benoit, CIRAD-DG-DS (FRA)

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/507692/)

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