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Title: | Sustainable development reconsidered: rich farmers of the Kagera Region in Tanzania |
Author: | Smith, Charles David |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | Labour, Capital and Society |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 34-54 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | Haya farmers household income |
Abstract: | The richest strata of Tanzanian smallholders are assured food security because they grow large quantities of subsistence crops and they earn relatively large cash incomes which they use to purchase a variety of foodstuffs. Rich peasants practice sustainable development by carefully preserving their resources and avoiding environmental degradation. This paper examines rich Haya farmers of the Kagera Region in Tanzania. It uses the career patterns of the most successful Haya farmers as a test of the utility of the five major sociological approaches to international development: modernization theory, the peasant economy approach, dependency theory, the gender differentiation approach, and the accumulation of capital theory. The paper focuses on two specific issues: how richer farmers accumulate their wealth, and how they sustain their income levels. Most Haya youth leave their villages in order to earn and save money. The ones who are successful at acquiring capital usually return to their homeland to set up a farm household. They make secure and profitable investments with the capital they have acquired in employment and trade. The typical rich farm focuses on one occupational specialty but also engages in a diversity of other subsistence and cash generating activities. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. |