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  Politics, Patronage and Projects: The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Tanzania

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012

  FAC Working Paper 40by Brian Cooksey
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  Sokoine University of Agriculture

  University departments offering teaching, research and consultancy services.
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  Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: Diverse livelihood pathways

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012

  CAADP Policy Brief 06 by Kate Wellard-Dyer Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa have struggled for centuries with drought, conflict and famine. They are resourceful, innovative and entrepreneurial peoples, by necessity. While there are profound difficulties in creating secure livelihoods for all, there are also significant successes.
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  Proceedings of the first Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation Programme Scientific Conference, 2012

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2012

  The 5-year CCIAM Programme is funded by the Norwegian Government and is carried out in cooperation between Tanzanian and Norwegian research institutions.
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  Innovation works:pastoralists building secure livelihoods in the Horn of Africa

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011

  Pastoralist areas of the Horn of Africa are experiencing rapid change. Markets are opening up, helping to improve livelihoods and generate substantial new wealth for local and national economies.
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  Microfinance for agricultural firms: credit access and loan repayment in Tanzania

  AgEcon Search, 2012

  The commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Tanzania deserves special attention. This paper investigates whether Tanzanian agricultural firms have a different probability to get a loan and whether their loans are differently volume rationed than loans to non-agricultural firms.
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  How can agriculture and trade lead to livelihoods, food security and development?: evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa

  Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India, 2011

  Agriculture and trade can be engines for inclusive growth and development in African countries. This monograph presents the main findings of country research studies on trade and agriculture issues in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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  Biofuel potential and FAO’s estimates of available land: The case of Tanzania

  2010

  While there are under-utilized lands in several countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the drive towards transforming huge areas of land to biofuel plantations must be reviewed critically.
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  Strengthening Voices: How pastoralist communities and local government are shaping strategies for adaptive environmental management and poverty reduction in Tanzania’s drylands.

  2011

  Tanzania has approximately 1.5 million pastoralists. The National Livestock Policy of 2006, and the Grazing-land and Animal Feed Resources Act no. 13 of 2010, underscored the contribution of pastoralism as a viable way of life.
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  Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihoods, practices and policies

  Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2000

  The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered a huge, unplanned income diversification response in African rural areas making rural populations become more occupationally flexible, spatially mobile and increasingly dependent on non-agricultural income-generating activities.

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