04228nam 22006855 450 991072895360332120230531163058.09783658400118(electronic bk.)978365840010110.1007/978-3-658-40011-8(MiAaPQ)EBC30558444(Au-PeEL)EBL30558444(OCoLC)1381093179(DE-He213)978-3-658-40011-8(BIP)086285923(CKB)26816402400041(EXLCZ)992681640240004120230531d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMore than a resource - the social significance of local seed systems and seed exchange in the Global South The example of Tanzania /by Jonas Metzger1st ed. 2023.Wiesbaden :Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden :Imprint: Springer VS,2023.1 online resource (195 pages)Print version: Metzger, Jonas More Than a Resource - the Social Significance of Local Seed Systems and Seed Exchange in the Global South Wiesbaden : Springer Vieweg. in Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH,c2023 9783658400101 Introduction -- Societal impact of gifting practices -- Research procedure -- Smallholder life in transition -- Seeds in Namtumbo: resource or social good?- Seed reference through the social networks -- "Those who sell seeds forget their humanity" -- "Agriculture is for those who have no education". Group discussion with two women farmers and two men farmers in Namtumbo -- Concluding observations: Peasant survival in a monetized world.Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of smallholder life worlds. Using the example of seeds, the close interweaving of agricultural and social practice is traced and it is worked out how individual processes of modernisation brought in from outside have far-reaching consequences for smallholder coexistence. The study provides a concrete, detailed and differentiated account of everyday farming life and how smallholder households deal with seeds. A particular focus is on seed exchange relationships and how these provide both social security and social cohesion in the study region. The study is based on extensive field research and intensive interviews with farmers, who also have their own say in the work. The author Dr. Jonas Metzger conducts research on social transformation processes in Southern Africa and East Africa at the Institute of Sociology at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.Economic sociologySocial structureEqualityEthnologyPolitical anthropologyEconomic anthropologyEconomic SociologySocial StructureSociocultural AnthropologyPolitical and Economic AnthropologyEconomicsBusiness & EconomicsEconomic sociology.Social structure.Equality.Ethnology.Political anthropology.Economic anthropology.Economic Sociology.Social Structure.Sociocultural Anthropology.Political and Economic Anthropology.338.17Metzger Jonas1363668MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910728953603321More Than a Resource - the Social Significance of Local Seed Systems and Seed Exchange in the Global South3384510UNINA