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Peasant agriculture is threatened by famine, poor farming techniques

By Anyang’ Nyong’o

Agrarian scholars have always had healthy controversial debates regarding what happens to peasants in capitalist society when capital fails, or is somehow slowed down, in penetrating peasant agriculture and transforming it into a robust economy for producing commodities for the market. Several things may happen.

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