Tanzanian Grain Supply: Peasant Production and State Policies

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Title:	Tanzanian Grain Supply: Peasant Production and State Policies
Author:	Bryceson, Deborah F.
Year:	1982
Periodical:	Food Policy
Volume:	7
Issue:	2
Period:	May
Pages:	113-124
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	agricultural policy cereals Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government Economics and Trade
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(82)90044-6
Abstract:	The present article discusses the problem inherent in the development of the Tanzanian economy with respect to the primary reliance placed on peasant commodity production of grain for the provision of the national grain supply. The discussion includes issues related to structural features of the Tanzanian economy, the nature of state intervention and the development of labour productivity in peasant agriculture. A mutually servicing relationship between peasant producers and state agents providing marketing and productive infrastructure is critical to the resolution of the current national grain supply problem. The article is based on a paper presented at a Bureau of Resource Assessment and Land Use Planning seminar on 24 September 1980 at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Fig., notes, tab.