Prosperity in rural Africa? : insights into wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania / edited by Dan Brockington and Christine Noe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brockington, Dan, editor.

Noe, Christine, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Tanzania--Longitudinal studies.

Rural development.

Wealth--Tanzania--Longitudinal studies.

Wealth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title addresses questions related to tracking economic development in poor rural areas in the face of scarce data. The chapters collect insights and experience into the dynamics of rural societies in Tanzania, demonstrating that economic data can render development in these regions invisible.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle page

Epigraph

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Boxes

A Guide to Using the Book

Biographies of Principal Authors

Acknowledgements

General

Monique

Christine

Anna

Torbern and Esbern

Dan

Agnes

Permissions and Disclaimer

1. Understanding Long-Term Change in Rural Tanzania

The Insistent Farmer

The Argument

Methods in Longitudinal Survey Research: Exploring Assets in Tanzania

The Organization of This Book and How to Use It

Part I. The Role of Assets in Understanding Social Change in Rural Tanzania: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections

2. Assets, Prosperity, and Data in Rural Africa

Transforming Africa or Leaving Rural Areas Behind?

How Do We Know about Rural Poverty?

Assets in Rural Livelihoods

Conclusion

3. The Multiple Meanings of Prosperity and Poverty in Tanzania

Introduction

A Brief Introduction to Asset Indices

Methods

Variations in Wealth and Poverty across and within Study Sites

What Counts and What Does Not: Are Abbreviated Asset Indices Counting the Right Thing?

Variation in the Meaning of Assets and Their Implications for Asset Indices

4. Assets and Domestic Units: Methodological Challenges for Longitudinal Studies of Poverty Dynamics

Assets and Poverty Dynamics over Time

Domestic Units and Poverty Dynamics over Time

Assets, Progress, and Change

Conclusion: Exploring Asset Dynamics in Development Research

Part II. Case Studies of Change

5. Tracing the Relationships between Assets and Well-Being in Complex Social Environments

Ethnography and Methods

Have Economic Livelihoods Improved or Faltered between 1995-2010?

Assets as Indicators of Well-Being

Discussion

Conclusion.

6. 'Modern' Farming and the Transformation of Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania

Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Intensification

Tanzanian Policies: Smallholder Farming and Intensification

The Setting and Research Method

Findings

7. Women's Tears or Coffee Blight? Gender Dynamics and Livelihood Strategies in Contexts of Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania

Women, Agriculture, and Coffee

Gender Ideologies in Meru Society

How Have Gender Norms Changed because of Emelea and Sambembe?

Discussion: Contesting Change in Meru

8. The Sesame Seed Cash Injection: Commodity-Fuelled Asset Booms in Remote Rural Tanzania

9. Self-Made Farmers and Sustainable Change? Entrepreneurs and Development in Goima and Mirambu

Introduction: Environmentalism in Tanzania

Methods and Context: Studying and Re-studying Goima and Mirambu

Goima and Mirambu Villages in the Early 1990s

Goima and Mirambu Some Twenty-Five Years Later, First Impressions

The Crucial Water Issue

The Farming Boom

Improved Livelihoods

Changing Perceptions of Wealth and Quality of Life

Migration and Change

Drivers of Change

Sustainable Growth?

Conclusion: Challenging a Dominant Discourse on Rural Change in Tanzania

10. Prosperity, Equality, and Power: Perspectives from Gitting and Gocho, Manyara Region

Results

Relating These Findings with the Literature

Discussing Changes in Gitting and Gocho

11. Ricing Fortunes: Agricultural Growth, Farm Intensification, and Paddy Specialization in Two Tanzanian Villages

Rice-Led Agricultural Growth in Tanzania

Theoretical Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation.

Data Sources, Site Selection, and Description

Empirical Analysis

Concluding Remarks

12. Involution and Enterprise in Rural Areas: A Twenty-Year Perspective on Rural and Agricultural Change in Morogoro

13. Rural and Agrarian Transformation 1984-2018 in Three Marginal Villages in Njombe Region, Tanzania

Fieldwork Methodology

Prior Situation

Agrarian and Rural Transformation: Spatial and Social Differentiation

Economic Crisis, Adjustment, and State-Sponsored Agricultural Modernization (1984-9)

Privatization, Liberalization, and Market Failure (1990-9)

Main Social Changes

14. Exploring Long-Term Changes in People's Welfare on the Uporoto Highlands, Mbeya District, Tanzania

Description of the Study Area and Methods

Changes in Cropping Systems and Household Assets on the Uporoto Highlands

Hired Labour

Assets

Other Notable Changes

Change in Wealth Status

Drivers of Prosperity

15. Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996-2017

'Origin of the Story'

Methods of the Revisit

Prior Status and Conditions

Overall Changes

Trajectories

16. The Urbanizing Frontier, Change and Continuity: Uchira 1996-2018

A Village on a Frontier

Uchira in 2004

Uchira in 2016

Dynamics of Service Provision

Livelihoods Patterns in Uchira 2004-16

2016-What Has Changed?

Part III. Conclusions

17. Telling the Stories of Asset Accumulation

Explaining Change and Observing Its Consequences

The Surprises of This Work

Joining up Rural and Agricultural Development Policies

Exploring Asset Dynamics in Longitudinal Research

Epilogue: Doing Longitudinal Research.

Christine (Chapter 7)

Stefano (Chapter 12)

Dan (Chapter 8)

Anna (Chapter 16)

Cosmas (Chapter 14)

Esbern (Chapters 13 and 15)

Verdiana (Chapter 14)

Katherine (Chapter 6)

Sulle (Chapter 6)

Willie (Chapter 9)

Vesa-Matti (Chapter 10)

Monique (Chapter 5)

Agnes (Chapter 11)

Torben (Chapter 15)

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

"This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2021).

ISBN:

0-19-263538-7

0-19-189817-1

0-19-263539-5

OCLC:

1267762705