COMMERCIALIZATION AND COMMODITIZATION IN THE JORDAN VALLEY: PRODUCERS, MERCHANTS AND THE STATE

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1992

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Aydın, Zülküf

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This article analyzes the role of the state, international organizations and merchant capital in the transformation of agricultural structures, as well as concomitant changes in social relations. Most rural development projects undertaken both by the state and international agencies aim at eliminating poverty through production increases. These projects premised on technological change, when applied without taking into account the unequal social structures, do not have the desired effect of eliminating poverty. As a result of the extension of Green Revolution technologies, small producers are driven into new production processes under the compulsion of the state, merchant capital and international capital, and they cannot sufficiently benefit from the realized production increases. Beset by the problems of balance of payments, shortage of foreign currency and provision of cheap foodstuffs, the state, in search for legitimacy, is put into a position where it mediates the interests of international aid and finance organizations in less developed countries.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/110592

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Department of Economics, Article