What is the Definition of Smallholder Agriculture in context with the African continent?
In an age of globalization and transnationalism, broad economic, political, and social forces are pushing societies towards homogenization on the model of the West and North. In the West and North itself, globalization is widely seen as unwelcome Americanization. Some observers contend that these global processes have marginalized nation-states. Others have noted how local societies, social groups, and even individuals throughout the world have tenaciously resisted these pressures. The phrase “the local and the global” has appeared in recent years as a trope for these contested interpretations of global trends in the programs of disciplinary conferences in the humanities and social sciences, and at area studies meetings. The terms globalization and transnationalism have been so often used and so frequently reinterpreted as to border on cliché. The occasion of a joint annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) and the Canadian Association of African Studies/Association cana
