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| Title: | Agricultural Marketing and Peasant-State Transfers in Tanzania |
| Author: | Ellis, Frank |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Periodical: | The Journal of Peasant Studies |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Period: | July |
| Pages: | 214-242 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | civil service agricultural marketing agriculture Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03066158308438212 |
| Abstract: | This paper is concerned with the analysis of peasantstate transfers via a centralized agricultural procurement system in one case-study country, Tanzania. The purpose of the analysis is not to suggest that Tanzanian policy makers deliberately set out to squeeze peasant agriculture nor that Tanzania represents a unique case in the processes obeserved. Rather the aims are: 1) to show that the level and growth of peasant-state transfers in the Tanzaniatype case are closely associated with more general developments in the country's political economy, especially the expansion of state institutions out of all proportion to the productive base of the economy required to support them, and 2) to examine in detail the way in which state marketing agencies in Tanzania came to absorb a steeply increasing proportion of the aggregate resources generated from the purchase and sale of agricultural crops. The material contained here is complementary to the author's earlier paper, 'Agricultural price policy in Tanzania', in World Development, 10(1982), 4, p. 263-283. App., notes, ref., sum., tab. |
