Agrarian economy, state, and society in contemporary Tanzania /

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Imprint:Aldershot : Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, c1999.
Description:xxiv, 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:The making of modern Africa
Making of modern Africa.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4091313
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Other authors / contributors:Forster, Peter G. (Peter Glover), 1944-
Maghimbi, Sam.
ISBN:1859726275
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Structural Adjustment and Land Reform
  • Trading images: discourse and statistical evidence on agricultural adjustment in Tanzania (1986-95)
  • Tanzania: implementing structural adjustment programmes - learning from the past
  • Structural adjustment and land reform policy in Tanzania: a political interpretation of the 1992 national agricultural policy
  • Land issues and Tanzania's political economy
  • The failure of institutional, technical and structural shifts in Tanzanian peasant agriculture: some lessons from India's green revolution
  • Revolution and stagnation in the peasant economy of Zanzibar
  • Indigenous Technical Knowledge: Linking institutional research and extension to indigenous knowledge systems: experience from the UMADEP project of Sokoine university of agriculture (SUA)
  • Indigenous knowledge and natural resource management
  • The implications of farmers' indigenous knowledge for sustainable agriculture production in Tanzania
  • The Matengo pit system of farming and its sustainability in the Matengo Highlands of Mbinga district, Tanzania
  • Case Studies: The development crisis of peasant agriculture in Tanzania in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Peasant agriculture in Tanzania: access to the use of resources to improve agricultural production
  • Urban agriculture and its damaging effects on the urban environment: the case of Tanzania
  • Near yet so poor: explaining underdevelopment in the coast region of Tanzania
  • Where have all the young girls gone? gender and sex ratios on Mafia Island, Tanzania
  • Rural Tanzanians and the national elections of 1995
  • Index