Contract farming in context -- Researching the potentials and limitations of contract farming in sub-Saharan Africa / Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Niels Fold, Arne Henningsen, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen -- Contract farming : fluid concept on firm grounds / Lotte Isager, Niels Fold, Marianne Nylandsted...

This book takes the reader through the expansion, restructuring and possible salvation of Malawi's main industry, tobacco. Malawi has been dependent on tobacco exports for a century, but now, with demand for Malawian tobacco declining fast, the country needs to diversify rapidly. The authors...

Smallholders now grow most of Malawi's main export crop – burley tobacco. Based on nineteen months' fieldwork in the Central Region, this article offers a sociological interpretation of why some smallholder growers spend a proportion of burley income on conspicuous consumption in rural towns...