Change in state power, international conditions and peasant producers: The case of Kenya
研究肯尼亚国家推动小农粮食自给自足的政策如何反而减少了市场粮食供应、增加了进口，并分析了总统权力变化和外部价格冲击对大规模农场和商业化农民的影响。
Arguments for food self‐sufficiency at the level of small‐scale farms invariably refer to the need for national self‐sufficiency. This article shows that state‐inspired attempts to impose self‐sufficiency upon specialised middle peasant producers in Kenya have had the effect of reducing the supply of marketed food and increasing food imports. A change in the character of presidential power has also inhibited food production by large‐scale farms and this, together with imported price shocks, has reduced the supply of food for commercialised peasants who produce for international markets. Only very specific political conditions make it possible for international and internal circuits of capital and exchange to be harmonised through the power of a nation state.