Agriculture in Tanzania Since 1986
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780821347799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn investigation into the place of agriculture in the economy of Tanzania.
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Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses
Author: Joseph A. Kuzilwa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-24
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1317309995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its associated value chains. This book examines different contract arrangements for selected crops, applying both qualitative and quantitative approaches in order to examine how contract farming affects smallholders and value chain dynamics in Tanzania. Major themes covered in the book include: contract farming policy; contract farming and value chain dynamics; contract farming adoption decisions; contract farming and income diversification. The authors also discuss alternative aspects of contract farming such as trust, conspiracy, empowerment and corporate social responsibility. The book presents original research from case studies conducted in Tanzania on sugarcane, tobacco, sunflower and cotton. These crops have a history of trials and errors with contract farming involving smallholders. Furthermore, they are targeted in national strategies as some of the main crops for establishment and upgrading of agro-industrial activities in Tanzania.
West African Agriculture and Climate Change
Author: Abdulai Jalloh
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 0896292045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo -- and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa's population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. West Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer. Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of West African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national governments and regional economic agencies already dealing with the vulnerabilities of climate change and deviations in environment. Decisionmakers and researchers will find West African Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change.
Tanzania at the Turn of the Century
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780821349410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study builds on lessons from Tanzania's development experience of the past four decades, with emphasis on the period following the 1996 Country Economic Memorandum, which focused on the challenge of reforms, in particular the impact of reforms on growth, incomes, and welfare in the country. The study assesses Tanzania's current development status against the country's ambition, since independence, to rid the nation of three archenemies: poverty, ignorance, and disease. Structural transformation has been extremely limited, with agriculture still dominating the economy, a non-diversified economy that hampers flexibility to withstand shock occurrences. Nonetheless, the country intensified macroeconomic policy reforms, significantly stabilizing the economy, with falling inflation levels, climbing foreign exchange reserves, and an overall fiscal balance. But the main factors identified behind the slow development progress, are primarily inadequate capital accumulation, and productivity growth; poor support for the transformation of agriculture; disrupted progress in building human capital; and, delayed demographic transition. However, the steady progress in reorienting its economy to a market-based operation, is creating space for exploiting the large potential of private sector initiative. It is emphasized that growth will only be sustainable, if firmly rooted in exploiting the domestic resource base, international competitiveness, and an aggressive pursuit of new export opportunities. -- Publisher description.
Agriculture and Poverty in Commodity-dependent African Countries
Author: Alexander Sarris
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9789251056103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study seeks to provide a robust empirical basis for the design of agricultural and rural development strategies effective in reducing rural poverty in Africa, and key issues discussed include the role of agricultural technology and factor market constraints. The analysis is based on surveys of farm households in Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash-crop growing regions in the United Republic of Tanzania, one of the world's poorest countries.
Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Policies
Author: Frank Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1134296282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries. As well as leading economists in the field such as Frank Ellis and Chris Barrett, there are a number of contributors from developing countries themselves. The book examines both macroeconomic and microeconomic phenomena and contains wide range of case studies. Skilfully exposing the gap that exists between the rhetoric of poverty reduction strategies in capital cities and the practice of public sector delivery in rural areas, this key text will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of rural development, rural livelihoods, poverty reduction strategies and Sub-Saharan Africa development as well as advisors and practitioners in international organizations.
Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa
Author: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0198799284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men
Trade Reforms and Food Security
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9789251055335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe links between trade-related policy reforms and food security is of key concern to many developing countries. This publication sets out the findings of 15 country case studies from Cameroon, Chile, China, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. The coverage includes countries at different stages of development with the main focus on low-income countries that are likely to be at greater risk of food insecurity. The studies examine the impact of trade-related policy reforms on agricultural prices, production and trade, and the consequences for food security issues for each country.
State, Land and Democracy in Southern Africa
Author: Arrigo Pallotti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1317050312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach country in southern Africa has a unique history but in all of them socio-economic inequalities and high poverty levels weaken the governments’ legitimacy and represent a challenge to models of economic development. One key issue appears to be the solution of the land question. This vital concern affects both citizenship and democracy in the political systems of the region, yet no government has shown the capacity or commitment to solve it. In this volume leading European, American and African scholars explore in detail the relationship between state, land and democracy. They examine the historical background of asset allocation and its impact on questions of nationality, the definition of citizenship, human rights and the current political and economic processes in southern Africa.
Tanzania
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1999-04-21
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 145183828X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper reviews economic developments in Tanzania during 1996–98. Both traditional and nontraditional exports increased sharply in 1995/96 and 1996/97 as agricultural and manufacturing production responded to the reforms; however, exports fell again in 1997/98, owing initially to drought and subsequently the floods associated with the El Nino phenomenon. The external position strengthened during the last two years as the deficit on the current account of the balance of payments (excluding transfers) declined and international reserves rebounded to the equivalent of three months of imports of goods and nonfactor services.
