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Book Synopsis The "success Story" of Peasant Tobacco Production in Tanzania by : Jannik Boesen
Download or read book The "success Story" of Peasant Tobacco Production in Tanzania written by Jannik Boesen and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1979 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph based on a research project analyzing the success of tobacco agricultural production by small farmers in Tanzania - describes introduction and development of this form of commercial farming in the tabora region, considers agricultural income by farm size, changes through ujamaa village policy, the economic policy of tobacco production, problems arising form deforestation, technical aspects, labour force participation, and linkages with world tobacco industry and international markets. Graphs, maps, photographs and statistical tables.
Book Synopsis Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses by : Joseph A. Kuzilwa
Download or read book Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses written by Joseph A. Kuzilwa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contract 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.
Book Synopsis Contextualising Poverty in Tanzania by : Werner Biermann
Download or read book Contextualising Poverty in Tanzania written by Werner Biermann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, co-published with Dar es Salaam University Press, includes an introduction by Werner Biermann and the important subject of contextualizing poverty in Africa.
Book Synopsis African Agricultural Reforms by : M. Ataman Aksoy
Download or read book African Agricultural Reforms written by M. Ataman Aksoy and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the political economy of the successes and failures of the agricultural reform programs in Sub Saharan Africa. It shows that in almost all cases reforms lead to a supply response but their sustainability in face of shocks depend on the consensus about the reform and the subsequent rent distribution.
Book Synopsis Increasing Production from the Land by : Andrew Coulson
Download or read book Increasing Production from the Land written by Andrew Coulson and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African agriculture faces major challenges with growing population pressure and the impact of climate change. Until now food production overall has broadly kept pace with demand. To maintain this impressive achievement, production from the land needs to be intensified, soil fertility must be enhanced, forests and water resources must be conserved, and land use practices must be sustainable over the long term. This book shows what needs to be done, and points to how best to achieve this. The book starts with a brief guide to what plants and animals need to grow well, how farmers currently use the land, and the research that is being conducted on new agricultural technologies. A comparison is made of productivity on small and large farms, which demonstrates that, contrary to some suggestions, small farmers, properly serviced, can be as productive or even more productive than larger farms. Subsequent chapters discuss issues of land tenure, pastoralism, training, the importance of women farmers, access to finance, markets, value chains, and contract farming as a partnership between small-scale producers, processors and traders in agricultural products. The final section of the book discusses whether a new green revolution is feasible or desirable for Africa. The potential risks and benefits of dependence on purchased agrochemicals, genetically modified varieties, and multinational seed and chemical companies are examined. A series of twelve broad policy proposals for achieving a sustainable agriculture sector is presented for consideration. Fifteen case studies illustrate the issues discussed in the book. Most of the examples are from East Africa, particularly Tanzania, but the principles addressed are relevant across the African continent. Each chapter of the book includes references and suggestions for further reading, most of them freely available to anyone with internet access. A set of essay questions exploring the issues covered in each chapter is included, to provide practical help for students of agriculture and their teachers.
Book Synopsis Environment and Marginality in Geographical Space by : Majoral Roser
Download or read book Environment and Marginality in Geographical Space written by Majoral Roser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. An examination of environment and marginality in geographical space. It discusses the issue of marginalization from the point of view of the environment by using the viewpoints of land use, landscape and development. The aim of the book is to provide an overview of the issues at hand, while keeping a close connection with practical real-world examples of what, where and how environmental issues manifest on marginal areas. The book is divided into four main parts, which address: land use and environment; territorial marginalization; development in margins and peripheries; and summary and conclusions.
Book Synopsis Tobacco in History by : Jordan Goodman
Download or read book Tobacco in History written by Jordan Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan Goodman explores the historical transformation of tobacco from Amerindian shamanism to global capitalism, from the food of the spirits to the fatal epidemic, from the rough pipe and cigar to the modern-day cigarette. This scholarly and comprehensive survey combines up-to-date published work with primary research to provide a systematic way of understanding current debates from a historical perspective. Goodman draws on a wide range of disciplines to present a history that explores larger themes, such as colonialism, consumerism, medical discourse and multinational enterprise. The book reveals the complex web of dependence and relationships surrounding this controversial commodity.
Author :World Institute for Development Economics Research Publisher :OUP Oxford ISBN 13 :0198286376 Total Pages :410 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (982 download)
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 3: Endemic Hunger by : World Institute for Development Economics Research
Download or read book The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 3: Endemic Hunger written by World Institute for Development Economics Research and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1990 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a major report on world hunger instigated by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, this volume deals with possible solutions to the problem of regular outbreaks of famine in various parts of the world.
Book Synopsis Seeds for African Peasants by : Esbern Friis-Hansen
Download or read book Seeds for African Peasants written by Esbern Friis-Hansen and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Julius Mwasanyagi: A forgotten African nationalist by : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Download or read book Julius Mwasanyagi: A forgotten African nationalist written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by Kindle Direct Publishing. This book was released on with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author brings attention to one of the most-forgotten leaders of the independence struggle in Tanganyika, later renamed Tanzania, and sheds some light on why he and other leaders like him are not remembered as much as they should be and why not much – if anything at all – has been written about them. The leader was Julius Mwasanyagi from Iringa District in the Southern Highlands Province. The work is also a historical account of Tanganyika's struggle for independence and life under British rule. The independence struggle was going on when the author was growing up in different parts of Tanganyika.
Download or read book Tanzania written by Andrew Coulson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanzania in the 1970s was at the forefront of policy innovation. Near-universal primary education, access to health services and supplies of clean water subsequently became mainstream ambitions in Africa and elsewhere. But its policies towards agricultural and industrial production failed and left the country in a particularly weak position when it faced the demands of structural adjustment in the 1980s. This book, originally published in 1982, has been reissued with a new introduction which brings its themes up to the present, when income from gold mining and natural gas is making Tanzania one of the most dynamic economies in Africa today. The author, first an economic civil servant in Tanzania, later an academic at the University of Dar es Salaam, was in a unique position to write it, drawing on his own experiences as well as the plethora of ideas and debates in Dar es Salaam in the 1970s. The book has stood the test of time not only because of the range of material it covers but more profoundly because of the approach it takes to the work of Tanzania's founding president, Julius Nyerere - sympathetic to his ideas, deeply critical of failures in implementation. 25 short easily-read chapters take the story of Tanzania from pre-colonial times to the present, and show how Nyerere was hemmed in by what he inherited from the German and British colonialists who ran the country up to Independence in 1961. It provides an invaluable introduction to anyone coming to the country for the first time, and offers a profound assessment of the theoretical debates that have made Tanzania of such interest to students of development.
Book Synopsis Environmental Management In Tropical Agriculture by : Robert Goodland
Download or read book Environmental Management In Tropical Agriculture written by Robert Goodland and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the problem of the high cost of agricultural development in tropical regions, this book summarizes the environmental concerns associated with tropical agriculture. The authors highlight major environmental hazards confronted in tropical agriculture and suggest specific management options that could be used to reduce or avoid them. The fi
Download or read book Rural Development written by John Harriss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and arranged, and the editor has provided a general introduction and passages that link the papers, alerting the student to rival theoretical interpretations and to regional parallels and contrasts. The book provides a basis for the analysis of the processes that make rural societies and economies what they are and substantially determine the changes that take place within them. The papers help the reader to understand the nature of the phenomena with which rural development has to deal, and in doing so to begin to evaluate the interventions of agencies and planners.
Download or read book Ashes to Ashes written by Stephen Lock and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material --Contributors /S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey --Introduction /Stephen Lock --Webs of Drug Dependence: Towards a Political History of Tobacco /Jordan Goodman --'A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make': Religion and Science in the British Anti-Tobacco Movement, 1853-1908 /Matthew Hilton and Simon Nightingale --The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting /David Harley --Tobacco and Victorian Literature /Hugh Cockerell --Pushing the Weed: The Editorializing and Advertising of Tobacco in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1880-1958 /Peter Bartrip --The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer /Richard Doll --Science and Policy: The Case of Postwar British Smoking Policy /Virginia Berridge --Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture /Allan M. Brandt --Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians /Christopher C. Booth --Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking /Francis Avery Jones --The Story of the Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians /Charles Fletcher --ASH: Witness on Smoking /David Simpson --Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize /John Crofton --Horace Joules' Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking /Keith Ball --The History of the Norwegian Ban on Tobacco Advertising /Kjell Bjartveit --Concluding Remarks /Roy Porter --Index /S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey.
Download or read book Ashes to Ashes written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future historians will wonder why, despite the risks, society persisted in its warm relationship with the cigarette; by the end of the century global consumption was still rising. The 1995 symposium at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine not only examined tobacco's connection with health, but the varied attitudes towards smoking, which have included regarding it as ‘manly', relaxing, fashionable - and decadent. A particular feature was a witness seminar attended not only by those who had made the initial discovery but by those with a crucial role in promoting public awareness of the dangers. And, as shown in this book, we still cannot escape the paradox that, while a considerable proportion of a country's population is hooked on the cigarette, the tobacco industry and the government are equally addicted to the profits and tax revenues it generates.
Book Synopsis Elections In Independent Africa by : Fred M. Hayward
Download or read book Elections In Independent Africa written by Fred M. Hayward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electoral process has been an integral part of the political landscape of independent Africa for more than a quarter-century and has roots going back to traditional African societies. An examination of the independence period demonstrates the rich diversity of forms, experiences, and meanings of elections in Africa. For some observers, elections are a clear example of multiple failures in Africa-the failure of democracy and institutional transfer and the breakdown of much of the African political process in general. The authors of this book argue that elections in Africa have played a much more significant role than has commonly been recognized; that in spite of problems, elections are an important part of African contemporary political life. It has been too easy to dismiss elections in Africa as irrelevant because there are fewer today than there were two decades ago or because they have frequently failed to conform to democratic norms. However, in a period in which the primary trends of government are toward exclusion, African elections provide one of the few instruments of political action open to civil society. This study of the electoral process suggests a number of themes and conclusions about the relationship of the electoral process to state power and institutions, elite competition, mass participation, legitimacy and its limits, ethnic conflict, mobilization, party competition, authoritarian regimes, the growing incidence of electoral violence, and mass support for democratic values. Fred M. Hayward's substantive introduction discusses the electoral process in general. Eight case studies of key African countries then illustrate the varied meanings and implications of elections in independent Africa, and in the final chapter Hayward draws conclusions about the role and impact of elections. It is clear that although electoral processes have demonstrated a certain fragility, both the form and the process have shown remarkable resilience.
Book Synopsis The Political Ecology of Bananas by : Lawrence S. Grossman
Download or read book The Political Ecology of Bananas written by Lawrence S. Grossman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere--capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment relationships, Lawrence Grossman provides a new perspective on the history and contemporary trajectory of the Windward Islands banana industry. He reveals in rich detail the myriad impacts of banana production on the peasant laborers of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Grossman challenges the conventional wisdom on three interrelated issues central to contract farming and political ecology. First, he analyzes the process of deskilling and the associated significance of control by capital and the state over peasant labor. Second, he investigates the impacts of contract farming for export on domestic food production and food import dependency. And third, he examines the often misunderstood problem of pesticide misuse. Grossman's findings lead to a reconsideration of broader debates concerning the relevance of research on industrial restructuring and globalization for the analysis of agrarian change. Most important, his work emphasizes that we must pay greater attention to the fundamental significance of the "environmental rootedness" of agriculture in studies of political ecology and contract farming.
