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Rural Institutions in Flux: Lessons from Three Tanzanian Cotton‐Producing Villages
Author(s) -
Bargawi Hannah
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of agrarian change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.63
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1471-0366
pISSN - 1471-0358
DOI - 10.1111/joac.12071
Subject(s) - institutional change , work (physics) , tanzania , colonialism , field research , rural history , political science , economic growth , rural area , economics , development economics , sociology , public administration , socioeconomics , social science , engineering , mechanical engineering , law
Policy and research on T anzania's cotton sector has recently turned to the role of rural institutions in correcting for continued market failures. Current work has, however, not sufficiently addressed how the process of institutional change has proceeded on the ground. Given T anzania's rich and complex colonial – and more recent ‘socialist’ – history, it is evident that the process of rural institutional change is not straightforward. This paper focuses on evidence from field research, conducted in 2006–7, from cotton‐producing villages in two regions in T anzania. The paper explores the uneven ways in which the current and new institutional structures are exploited by producers and turns to T anzania's rural and institutional history to explain these findings.