Peasant Intellectuals
Peasant Intellectuals

Author: Steven M. Feierman

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1990-11-14

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0299125238

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Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. But, do coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society or do peasants act in a world where elites define political issues? Peasant Intellectuals is based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 and includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society. Steven Feierman provides the history of the struggles to define the most basic issues of public political discourse in the Shambaa-speaking region of Tanzania. Feierman also shows that peasant society contains a rich body of alternative sources of political language from which future debates will be shaped.

Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania
Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania

Author: Goran Hyden

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-05-13

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0520308042

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

The Agrarian Question in Tanzania?
The Agrarian Question in Tanzania?

Author: Sam Maghimbi

Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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There are about four million peasant families in Tanzania. They farm on the smallest scale, the average farm being two acres in size. The principal agricultural equipment is the hand hoe. Since the onset of the colonial era, those in authority have pursued policies to dominate the peasantry. It is argued that the small scale of operations has contributed to the widespread poverty among farmers. There is still good agricultural land that is not farmed, but the current land tenure of peasants reproduces itself on new farmland. The conclusion is that in order to accelerate agricultural development, land tenure must be institutionalized.

Government of Development
Government of Development

Author: Leander Schneider

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780253013972

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"This book is a publication of Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing."

The Tanzanian Peasantry
The Tanzanian Peasantry

Author: Peter Glover Forster

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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These are contributions from various disciplines in the social sciences concerning the Tanzanian peasantry. It continues themes raised in a prior volume (published by Avebury), and particular attention is paid to environmental and cultural factors, as well as to gender issues.

Farm Implements for Small-scale Farmers in Tanzania
Farm Implements for Small-scale Farmers in Tanzania

Author: Björn Mothander

Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9789171062901

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This book deals with major issues related to hand- and ox-drawn farm implements for different farming systems and ecological areas in Tanzania. It is based on field visits in some ten Tanzanian regions. The study may shed some light on the relative importance of problems related to production and distribution of basic farm implements as an element of the crisis. preferred by Tanzanian peasants. The structure and conditions of the different levels of production and repair of farm implements in Tanzania, village blacksmiths, small-, medium- and large-scale production, are investigated. estimates for most hand- and ox-drawn implements in Tanzania. The structure and functioning of the distribution system for farm implements are also analyzed. activities of peasant farming in Tanzania, including supply of relevant implements, raw materials for local village production and repair of implements, and how to improve village connected transport through increased production of good quality ox-carts.

African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania
African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania

Author: Priya Lal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-12

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1107104521

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Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967-75. Inaugurated shortly after independence, ujamaa ('familyhood' in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development policy, seeking to reorganize the Tanzanian countryside into communal villages to achieve national development. Priya Lal investigates how Tanzanian leaders and rural people creatively envisioned ujamaa and documents how villagization unfolded on the ground, without affixing the project to a trajectory of inevitable failure. By forging an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania restores a sense of possibility and process to the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the 1960s and 70s world.

The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era
The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era

Author: Utsa Patnaik

Publisher: Fahamu/Pambazuka

Published: 2011-10-13

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0857490389

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A compelling and critical destruction of both the English agricultural revolution and the theory of comparative advantage, upon which unequal trade has been justified for three centuries, this account argues that these ideas have been used to disguise the fact that the Northfrom the time of colonialism to the present dayhas used the much greater agricultural productivity of the South to feed and improve the living standards of its own people while impoverishing the South. At the same time, the imposition of neoliberal reforms in the African continent has led to greater unemployment, spiraling debt, land and livestock losses, reduced per capita food production, and decreased nutrition. Arguing that political stability hangs in the balance, this book calls for labor-intensive small-scale production, new thinking about which agricultural commodities are produced, the redistribution of the means of food production, and increased investment in rural development. The combined effort of African and Indian scholarly work, this account demands policies that defend the land rights of small producers and allow people to live with dignity. "