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Author: search.filters.author.Taylor, Anthea WedgwoodSubject: search.filters.subject.Food security--Africa

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    African seed systems : the crises of food security and the rights of the farmer in Africa's globalising food regime
    (2017) Taylor, Anthea Wedgwood
    Through a close reading of the changes that have occurred within African agriculture using Food Regime Theory, this study will attempt to further understand the impact that has been felt by small-scale farmers who are a dominant feature of African agriculture. This paper will seek to understand the influence that the increased corporatization of agriculture through globalization has had on the small-scale farmer in Africa. As agriculture has become more and more corporatized and commodi:ied, it becomes important to consider the changes that have occurred for those actors within the industry and how these changes will impact them. This paper is attempting to do that through a close reading of the changes that have taken place within an integral part of the agricultural process: the seed.