Case Studies of Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania
The research informing this book examines the potential for various forms of institutional innovations in building competitiveness of smallholder agriculture in Tanzania. It was inspired by a review of the performance of the agricultural sector since Tanzanian independence in 1961, from which it is hypothesized that persistent structural and institutional constraints inhibit increases in productivity, quality, and output of smallholder agriculture. Agriculture continues to employ a significant proportion of the labour force, where smallholder farmers dominate production of both food and export crops.