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From millet to tomatoes: incremental intensification with high-value crops in contemporary Meru, Tanzania

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

In Meru, Tanzania, changing land/labour ratios have, for over a century, been the main driving force in a farm intensification process. The construction and expansion of irrigation systems, increased use of farm inputs and transfer from low- to high-value agricultural crops have enabled smallholders to improve their land productivity. Technological change has been accompanied by institutional change, primarily in the form of changes to property right regimes and expanding markets. In the past few decades, increasing urban and rural demand has further enhanced smallholders' production strategies. By applying the induced innovation theory, this article captures and analyses the long-term incremental processes of change whereby endogenous technological and institutional innovations have led to farm intensification in the contemporary local system of agricultural smallholder production. Further, it shows how this process has been reinforced by improved access to market opportunities.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

400-419

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Eastern African Studies

Volym

8

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Economic History

Nyckelord

  • farm intensification
  • induced innovation
  • high-value crops
  • Tanzania

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1753-1055