Brokering Development?: The Private Sector and Unalleviated Poverty in Tanzania's Agricultural Growth Corridors

Idil Ires

Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Brokering Development?

The Private Sector and Unalleviated Poverty in Tanzania's Agricultural Growth Corridors

Idil Ires

Volume 126 in the series Edition Politik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839459522

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About this book

Recent portrayals of the private sector as the engine of poverty alleviation in Africa's agricultural growth corridors have sparked critique by scholars and activists alike. Land acquisitions by investors are the most criticized, but the private sector engages in corridors in other ways, on which research remains scarce. Idil Ires provides a political economy analysis of whether smallholders prosper when they coordinate with input suppliers, banks, and crop buyers through markets and contract farming in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania. This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners from diverse fields, offering timely insights into a critical debate.

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Idil Ires is a political economist specialized in agrarian change, trade, and industrialization in East Africa. She completed a joint-Ph.D. in Political Science and Geography and currently works as a consultant at Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) in Dar es Salaam.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Conversion of Currencies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Abstract Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Background Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Theoretical and conceptual frameworks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4. Methods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. Remaking Madibira: land-use change and distribution at conservation margins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
6. The private sector-led agricultural transformation in Mbarali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
7. In union, there is strength? Farmers’ organizations as a gateway to the private sector Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
8. Autonomous contract-farming groups Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
9. Rural differentiation: income variations and livelihood pathways Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
10. Discussion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
11. Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
12. Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 342
Keywords: Land; Contract Farming; Tanzania; SAGCOT; Politics; Economy; Globalization; International Relations; Economic Policy; Political Science

eBook

Published: February 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839459522