| Description |
1 online resource (427 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Understanding long-term change in rural Tanzania / Dan Brockington, Christine Noe -- Assets, prosperity, and data in rural Africa / Dan Brockington, Christine Noe -- The multiple meanings of prosperity and poverty in Tanzania / Olivia Howland, Christine Noe, Dan Brockington -- Assets and domestic units: methodological challenges for longitudinal studies of poverty dynamics / Dan Brockington, Ernestina Coast, Anna Mdee, Olivia Howland, Sara Randall -- Tracing the relationships between assets and well-being in complex social environments / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder -- "Modern" farming and the transformation of livelihoods in rural Tanzania / Katherina A. Snyder, Emmanuel Sulle, Deodatus A. Massay, Anselmi Petro, Paschal Qamara, Dan Brockington -- Women's tears of coffee blight?: gender dynamics and livelihood strategies in contexts of agricultural transformation in Tanzania / Christine Noe, Olivia Howland, Dan Brockington -- The sesame seed cash injection: commodity-fuelled asset booms in remote rural Tanzania / Dan Brockington -- Self-made farmers and sustainable change?: entrepreneurs and development in Goima and Mirabu / Wilhelm Östberg, Joseph Mduma, Dan Brockington -- Prosperity, equality, and power: perspectives from Gitting and Gocho, Manyara Region / Vesa-Matti Loiske, Dan Brockington -- Ricing fortunes: agricultural growth, farm intensification, and paddy specialization in two Tanzanian villages / Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Ellen Hillbom, Elibariki Msuyawe -- Involution and enterprise in rural areas: a twenty-year perspective on rural and agricultural change in Morogoro / Stefano Ponte, Dan Brockington -- Rural and agrarian transofrmation 1984-2018 in three marginal villages in Njombe Region, Tanzania / Esbern Friis-Hansen -- Exploring long-term changes in people's welfare on the Uporoto Highlands, Mbeya District, Tanzania / Cosmas Sokoni, Verdiana Tilumanywa -- Improved livelihoods on less land: the case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala villages in Iringa Region, 1996-2017 / Torben Birch-Thomsen, Esbern Friis-Hansen -- The urbanizing frontier, change and continuity: Uchira 1996-2018 / Anna Mdee -- Telling the stories of asset accumulation / Christine Noe, Dan Brockington -- Epilogue: doing longitudinal research / Christine Noe, Stefano Ponte, Dan Brockington, Anna Mdee, Cosmas Sokoni, Esbern Friis-Hansen, Verdiana Tilumanywa, Katherina A. Snyder, Emmanuel Sulle, Willie Östberg, Vesa-Matti Loiske, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Torben Birch-Thomsen |
| Summary |
"What does it mean to say that rural areas of Africa are poor? Many people insist that in rural African populations poverty is prevalent. This is either because the smallholder agricultural practices are unproductive or it is because economic policies have not protected and promoted African farming. But whether this deprivation is the fault of the peasant, or the government, both sides agree on the facts of rural poverty. However in both cases rural poverty is described using measures which make it hard, if not impossible, to capture new forms of wealth that rural people may be accruing. These new forms of wealth, which largely comprise productive assets, are especially important because they feature so prominently in rural peoples' own definitions of wealth. Using an unprecedented collection of longitudinal surveys, in which experienced researchers have revisited villages that they have known for decades, the volume tracks surprising increases in assets in diverse locations in Tanzania. The result of these findings is a compilation which is fascinating in itself and important for the understanding of rural economies' development data and agricultural policy"--Publisher's description |
| Analysis |
assets, poverty, prosperity, rural areas, Tanzania, agriculture, longitudinal research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on March 11, 2022) |
| Subject |
Rural development -- Tanzania -- Longitudinal studies
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Wealth -- Tanzania -- Longitudinal studies
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Rural development
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Wealth
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Tanzania
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| Genre/Form |
Longitudinal studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brockington, Dan, editor
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Noé, Christine, editor
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| ISBN |
9780192635396 |
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0192635395 |
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9780191898174 |
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9780192635389 |
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0192635387 |
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0191898171 |
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