Prosperity in rural Africa? : insights into wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania / / edited by Dan Brockington and Christine Noe [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910502689303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021
• ISBN: 0-19-263538-7; 0-19-189817-1; 0-19-263539-5
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 pages)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 330.9678
• Soggetti: Rural development - Tanzania; Wealth - Tanzania
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition also issued in print: 2021.; "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Halftitle page -- Epigraph -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- A Guide to Using the Book -- Biographies of Principal Authors -- Acknowledgements -- General -- Monique -- Christine -- Anna -- Torbern and Esbern -- Dan -- Agnes -- Permissions and Disclaimer -- 1. Understanding Long-Term Change in Rural Tanzania -- The Insistent Farmer -- The Argument -- Methods in Longitudinal Survey Research: Exploring Assets in Tanzania -- The Organization of This Book and How to Use It -- Part I. The Role of Assets in Understanding Social Change in Rural Tanzania: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections -- 2. Assets, Prosperity, and Data in Rural Africa -- Transforming Africa or Leaving Rural Areas Behind? -- How Do We Know about Rural Poverty? -- Assets in Rural Livelihoods -- Conclusion -- 3. The Multiple Meanings of Prosperity and Poverty in Tanzania -- Introduction -- A Brief Introduction to Asset Indices -- Methods -- Variations in Wealth and Poverty across and within Study Sites -- What ; Counts and What Does Not: Are Abbreviated Asset Indices Counting the Right Thing? -- Variation in the Meaning of Assets and Their Implications for Asset Indices -- Conclusion -- 4. Assets and Domestic Units: Methodological Challenges for Longitudinal Studies of Poverty Dynamics -- Introduction -- Assets and Poverty Dynamics over Time -- Domestic Units and Poverty Dynamics over Time -- Assets, Progress, and Change -- Conclusion: Exploring Asset Dynamics in Development Research -- Part II. Case Studies of Change -- 5. Tracing the Relationships between Assets and Well-Being in Complex Social Environments -- Introduction -- Ethnography and Methods -- Have Economic Livelihoods Improved or Faltered between 1995-2010? -- Assets as Indicators of Well-Being -- Discussion -- Conclusion.; 6. 'Modern' Farming and the Transformation of Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania -- Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Intensification -- Tanzanian Policies: Smallholder Farming and Intensification -- The Setting and Research Method -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 7. Women's Tears or Coffee Blight? Gender Dynamics and Livelihood Strategies in Contexts of Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania -- Introduction -- Women, Agriculture, and Coffee -- Methods -- Gender Ideologies in Meru Society -- How Have Gender Norms Changed because of Emelea and Sambembe? -- Discussion: Contesting Change in Meru -- Conclusion -- 8. The Sesame Seed Cash Injection: Commodity-Fuelled Asset Booms in Remote Rural Tanzania -- Introduction -- Methods -- Findings -- Conclusion -- 9. Self-Made Farmers and Sustainable Change? Entrepreneurs and Development in Goima and Mirambu -- Introduction: Environmentalism in Tanzania -- Methods and Context: Studying and Re-studying Goima and Mirambu -- Goima and Mirambu Villages in the Early 1990s -- Goima and Mirambu Some Twenty-Five Years Later, First Impressions -- The Crucial Water Issue -- The Farming Boom -- Improved Livelihoods -- Changing Perceptions of Wealth and Quality of Life -- Migration and Change -- Drivers of Change -- Sustainable Growth? -- Conclusion: Challenging a Dominant Discourse on Rural Change in Tanzania -- 10. Prosperity, Equality, and Power: Perspectives from Gitting and Gocho, Manyara Region -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Relating These Findings with the Literature -- Discussing Changes in Gitting and Gocho -- Conclusion -- 11. Ricing Fortunes: Agricultural Growth, Farm Intensification, and Paddy Specialization in Two Tanzanian Villages -- Introduction -- Rice-Led Agricultural Growth in Tanzania -- Theoretical Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation.; Data Sources, Site Selection, and Description -- Empirical Analysis -- Concluding Remarks -- 12. Involution and Enterprise in Rural Areas: A Twenty-Year Perspective on Rural and Agricultural Change in Morogoro -- Introduction -- Findings -- Conclusion -- 13. Rural and Agrarian Transformation 1984-2018 in Three Marginal Villages in Njombe Region, Tanzania -- Introduction -- Fieldwork Methodology -- Prior Situation -- Agrarian and Rural Transformation: Spatial and Social Differentiation -- Economic Crisis, Adjustment, and State-Sponsored Agricultural Modernization (1984-9) -- Privatization, Liberalization, and Market Failure (1990-9) -- Main Social Changes -- Conclusion -- 14. Exploring Long-Term Changes in People's Welfare on the Uporoto Highlands, Mbeya District, Tanzania -- Introduction -- Description of the Study Area and Methods -- Changes in Cropping Systems and Household Assets on the Uporoto Highlands -- Hired Labour -- Assets -- Other Notable Changes -- Change in Wealth Status -- Drivers of Prosperity -- Conclusion -- 15. Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996-2017 -- 'Origin of the Story' -- Methods of the Revisit -- Prior Status ; and Conditions -- Overall Changes -- Trajectories -- Conclusion -- 16. The Urbanizing Frontier, Change and Continuity: Uchira 1996-2018 -- Introduction -- A Village on a Frontier -- Uchira in 2004 -- Uchira in 2016 -- Dynamics of Service Provision -- Livelihoods Patterns in Uchira 2004-16 -- 2016-What Has Changed? -- Conclusion -- Part III. Conclusions -- 17. Telling the Stories of Asset Accumulation -- Explaining Change and Observing Its Consequences -- The Surprises of This Work -- Joining up Rural and Agricultural Development Policies -- Exploring Asset Dynamics in Longitudinal Research -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Doing Longitudinal Research.; Christine (Chapter 7) -- Stefano (Chapter 12) -- Dan (Chapter 8) -- Anna (Chapter 16) -- Cosmas (Chapter 14) -- Esbern (Chapters 13 and 15) -- Verdiana (Chapter 14) -- Christine -- Katherine (Chapter 6) -- Sulle (Chapter 6) -- Willie (Chapter 9) -- Dan -- Vesa-Matti (Chapter 10) -- Monique (Chapter 5) -- Agnes (Chapter 11) -- Torben (Chapter 15) -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This title addresses questions related to tracking economic development in poor rural areas in the face of scarce data. The chapters collect insights and experience into the dynamics of rural societies in Tanzania, demonstrating that economic data can render development in these regions invisible.