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King Cotton under Sovereignty: The Private Marketing Chain for Cotton in Western Tanzania, 1997/98
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Examines the emergence of a private sector marketing chain for cotton in Tanzania in the period 1994/95-1997/98, based on field work conducted between June and September 1997.DocumentLimping towards a Ditch without a Crutch: The Brave New World of Tanzanian Cotton Marketing Cooperatives.
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Describes developments in cotton marketing cooperatives in Tanzania’s major cotton growing area between 1991 and 1997. During this period cooperatives underwent voluntarisation, lost state and donor financial support and (from 1995) had to face strong competition from private cotton buyers/ginners.DocumentThe poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.DocumentOf saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it.DocumentPeasant Cotton Cultivation and Marketing Behaviour in Tanzania since Liberalisation
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Discusses the debate around structural adjustment and African agriculture, the history of the Tanzanian cotton sector and farming systems in the main cotton growing area of the country before reporting the results of a small survey of cultivators carried out at the end of the 1997/8 seed cotton marketing season.DocumentSeed fairs and the case of Marambo village, Nachingwea District, Tanzania: implications of local informal seed supply and variety
Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2000Report assessing the indigenous systems of seed flow and variety development (especially seed fairs), and public agricultural development organisation perceptions of it.Outcomes and conclusions:indications of the existence of a dynamic informal culture of seed procurement, testing, and exchange among smallholder farmers in south east Tanzaniafarmers attended the seed fairs, tDocumentComparative cost of production analysis in East Africa : implications for competitiveness and comparative advantage
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996Report is an analytical attempt to highlight areas of comparative advantage and disadvantage in various East African countries and suggest ways in which these countries could improve regional and individual competitiveness in production and trade via optimal resource allocation.DocumentAgriculture and rural development in Tanzania: a survey of the 1980-1995 literature
Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1995The study aimed at reviewing the literature and providing a bibliography on agriculture and rural development in Tanzania.Pages