Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996–2017
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Improved Livelihoods on Less Land : The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996–2017. / Birch-Thomsen, Torben; Friis-Hansen, Esbern.
Prosperity in Rural Africa?: Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania. ed. / Dan Brockington; Christine Noe. Oxford University Press, 2021. p. 315-338.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Improved Livelihoods on Less Land
T2 - The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996–2017
AU - Birch-Thomsen, Torben
AU - Friis-Hansen, Esbern
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The chapter traces the changing economic history of two villages from their status as frontier settlements with abundant land in the 1950s, to poor farming areas ill-endowed with infrastructure, to more prosperous settlements benefitting from commercialized tomato cultivation and good road connections to the regional capital. The wealth is visible in the larger number of higher-quality houses which are being constructed. There are also changes in local perceptions of what wealth and poverty mean. Finally the chapter presents different sorts of strategies which capture the ways in which residents have responded to the opportunities and circumstances around them.
AB - The chapter traces the changing economic history of two villages from their status as frontier settlements with abundant land in the 1950s, to poor farming areas ill-endowed with infrastructure, to more prosperous settlements benefitting from commercialized tomato cultivation and good road connections to the regional capital. The wealth is visible in the larger number of higher-quality houses which are being constructed. There are also changes in local perceptions of what wealth and poverty mean. Finally the chapter presents different sorts of strategies which capture the ways in which residents have responded to the opportunities and circumstances around them.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Poverty
KW - Prosperity
KW - Agriculture
KW - Tomatoes
KW - Iringa
U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780198865872.001.0001
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780198865872.001.0001
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780198865872
SP - 315
EP - 338
BT - Prosperity in Rural Africa?
A2 - Brockington, Dan
A2 - Noe, Christine
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -
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