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State intervention, contradictions and agricultural stagnation in Tanzanian—Cashew nut vs charcoal production
Author(s) -
Nindi B. C.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
public administration and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-162X
pISSN - 0271-2075
DOI - 10.1002/pad.4230110204
Subject(s) - peasant , tanzania , context (archaeology) , agriculture , ideology , state (computer science) , subject (documents) , agricultural productivity , production (economics) , economics , sociology , geography , political science , socioeconomics , mathematics , politics , archaeology , algorithm , computer science , law , library science , macroeconomics
The article first describes Tanzanian development ideology and main economic activities. It explains economic decline and gives a brief description of Rufiji District. The next section examines the dynamics of state‐peasant‐commercial class relationship in Rufiji district within the wider context. There is a number of broad theoretical lines of reasoning that have come to predominate in contemporary debate on the origins and genesis of the African agricultural crisis and Tanzania in particular. This paper seeks to show that the notion of crisis must be subject to a careful, specific, and historically sensitive analysis.