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Title: | Farm intensification and milk market expansion in Meru, Tanzania |
Author: | Hillbom, Ellen |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462) |
Volume: | 54 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 145-165 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | dairy farms dairy industry milk agricultural intensification agricultural market |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v054/54.1.hillbom.pdf |
Abstract: | In Meru, Tanzania, technological and institutional change has turned milk into one of the most reliable and important sources of income for smallholder households. Decades of increased population density have caused land scarcity, leading smallholders to intensify their farming methods and land use, including introducing stall-fed exotic breeds of dairy cows. Meanwhile, a growing urban and rural demand has resulted in a significant market expansion for milk and increasing cash incomes for smallholders. Both farm intensification and market expansion are bottom-up processes of change driven primarily by smallholders. These factors make the livestock sector in Meru an interesting example of broad-based agricultural development. Bibliogr., ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |