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Politics and the Food Production Crisis in Tanzania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

John Shao
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Opinion is now universally agreed among all people of conscience, that the so-called Tanzanian experiment is a complete and dismal failure. Reviews critical of this ‘experiment’ and warning about the impending catastrophe, which began to appear in the international press in the middle of 1980 as a whisper, had become an uproar by late 1982 as the hopes and optimism that accompanied the apparent and aberrant recovery of 1976-79 were dashed and shattered by the return of the food crisis in 1980 and the perseverance and intensification of the general economic crisis. The pace of deterioration of the economy has accelerated since 1980.

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Focus: The Politics of Food
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African Issues , Volume 14 , 1985 , pp. 10 - 24
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1985 

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