Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania

Gollin, Douglas; Goyal, Radhika

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“…The second surprising result from this work is the proposition that people could have become more prosperous as a result of greater agricultural activity and higher crop prices (shown in Tables V and VI). This is surprising because most accounts of Tanzanian agriculture emphasise its low productivity and stasis (Gollin & Goyal 2017). Investigations suggest that most rural households are net consumers, not producers, of food and therefore any increase in crop prices should make most rural people poorer.…”

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Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania

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Measures of poverty based on consumption suggest that recent economic growth in many African countries has not been inclusive, particularly in rural areas. We argue that measures of poverty using assets may provide a different * The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the DfID ESRC Growth Research Programme (ES/L/) which has funded this research project and of the Research Council of Norway which has supported this work through the Greenmentality project. We are grateful to the University of Manchester for supporting Brockington's sabbatical research, to two anonymous reviewers for their incisive and supportive comments on an earlier MS and to the residents of Gitting and Gocho for answering our questions and discussing the findings with us.

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“…This finding indicates that although geographic location plays a role in determining the poverty rate, there is a significant role for other factors such as agricultural productivity, population density and infrastructure. For example, Gollin et al (2016) suggest the need for government investment in roads, transport and agricultural extension in Uganda.…”

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Do remote areas benefit from economic growth? Evidence from Uganda

Daniels

Minot

2021

J of Intl Development

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One of the most universal patterns in the spatial distribution of poverty in developing countries is that the incidence of poverty is lower in urban areas than in rural areas. It is widely accepted, though less well documented, that remote rural areas tend to be poorer than areas with good market access. Furthermore, there is concern that remote rural areas may not benefit equally from economic growth. In this paper, we examine poverty trends in rural Uganda to test whether remote rural areas benefit from economic growth to the same degree as better connected rural areas. Applying a variant of small‐area estimation methods to household survey data and several Demographic and Health Surveys carried out over 10 years, we confirm that remote rural areas are poorer than better connected rural areas, but find no evidence that they have fallen further behind over this period.

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“…Uganda and Malawi rely heavily on the agriculture sector. Farming is the major source of income for 69% of Ugandan households, while 80% of the Malawian population are small‐holder farmers (Gollin et al., 2017). Labor productivity (expressed as annual output per worker) in agriculture is relatively low compared to other sectors of the economy in SSA (Gollin et al., 2013; McCullough, 2017).…”

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Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub‐Saharan Africa

Amare

Parvathi

Nguyen

2023

Canadian J Agri Economics

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Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income growth on macroeconomic indicators of development. Much less is known about the micro-scale changes within the farming sector that signal a transformation precipitated by agricultural income growth. This study provides a comparative analysis of the patterns of micro-level changes that occur among small-holder farmers in Uganda and Malawi in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia (SEA). Our analysis provides several important insights on agricultural transformation in these two regions. First, agricultural income in all examined countries is vulnerable to changes in precipitation and temperature, an effect that is nonlinear and asymmetric. SSA countries are more vulnerable to these weather changes. Second, exogenous increases in agricultural income in previous years improve non-farm income and trigger a change in labor allocation within the rural sector in SEA. However, this is the opposite in SSA where the increase in agricultural income reduces nonfarm income, indicating a substitution effect between farm and non-farm sectors.These findings reveal clear agricultural transformation driven by agricultural income in SEA but no similar evidence in SSA. K E Y W O R D Sagricultural transformation, small-holder farmers, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa RésuméLa plupart des études sur la transformation agricole documentent l'impact de la croissance des revenus agricoles sur les indicateurs macroéconomiques de développement. On en sait beaucoup moins sur les changements à petite échelle au sein du secteur agricole qui signalent une transformation précipitée par la croissance des revenus agricoles. Cette étude fournit une analyse comparative des modéles de micro-changements qui se produisent chez les petitsThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania

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Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania

Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania

Do remote areas benefit from economic growth? Evidence from Uganda

Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub‐Saharan Africa

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