Guneid Sugar Scheme: A Sociological Consideration of Some Aspects of Conflict between Management and Tenants

A brief analysis of one aspect of the sugar producing scheme at Guneid (occupying an area of some forty thousand feddans on the east bank of the Blue Nile approximately nienty miles south of Khartoum), namely the conflict between management and tenant farmers. The material presented here was gathered in the course of a general survey into the socio-economic characteristics of the tenant farmers at Guneid. This research was conducted, during December 1969 and April 1970, following invitation from the sugar factory to the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Khartoum. Sections: General background – Instances of agricultural conflict between management and tenants – Structural sources of conflict – Conclusion. Notes, tables.