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dc.contributor.authorWest, Jennifer Joy
dc.contributor.authorHaug, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-12T08:35:45Z
dc.date.available2017-12-12T08:35:45Z
dc.date.created2017-09-07T09:06:58Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Eastern African Studies. 2017, 11 (4), 670-691.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1753-1055
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2470525
dc.description.abstractThis paper compares and contrasts two cases of smallholderinclusive agricultural investment in Tanzania and investigates the factors that shape their vulnerability and resilience to risks and uncertainties that influence their performance and viability as a development strategy. Drawing on observations and interviews with smallholders, key informants and management and staff of two large-scale rice and sugarcane estates, we discuss how the division of ownership, voice, risks and rewards in these investments affect how small- and large-scale producers negotiate their relationships in practice, highlighting the role of the state and political economy factors in shaping these dynamics. We find that a lack of transparent and reliable policies and mechanisms for governing access to land, resolving contractual disputes, and marketing the crops in question reinforces power asymmetries between the participants, undermining the potential development impacts of both investments. The two estates moreover appear to enjoy different levels of state protection that render their commercial operations more or less vulnerable and resilient to various political and economic risks. We conclude that smallholder-inclusive agro-investments in Tanzania are unlikely to fulfil both a commercial and a development function in the absence of consistent, transparent and enforceable ‘rules of the game’ that incentivize and reward responsible agricultural investment behaviour.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.relation.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17531055.2017.1367994
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleThe vulnerability and resilience of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in Tanzanianb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber670-691nb_NO
dc.source.volume11nb_NO
dc.source.journalJournal of Eastern African Studiesnb_NO
dc.source.issue4nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17531055.2017.1367994
dc.identifier.cristin1491575
cristin.unitcode192,13,1,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for internasjonale miljø- og utviklingsstudier
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