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Agrarian Crisis and Economic Liberalisation in Tanzania: a Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Philip Raikes
Philip Raikes
Affiliation:
Center for Development Research, Copenhagen
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The article by Michael F. Lofchie on ‘Agrarian Crisis and Economic Liberalisation in Tanzania’, published in this Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 3, September 1978, pp. 451–75, has already aroused considerable comment and raises a number of points of substantial general interest. It is, however, to my mind, somewhat misleading in several respects. Few, I think, would now dissent from the very general proposition that agricultural policies in the period up to 1974–5 contributed both to a generally slow rate of growth of production and to the major shortfall in output of that year, and that this in turn contributed to changes in policy since then.

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1979 , pp. 309 - 316
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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page 310 note 1 See Coulson, Andrew, ‘Peasants and Bureaucrats’, in Review of African Political Economy (London), 3, 05–10 1975, pp. 53–8;Google ScholarHydén, Göran, ‘Ujamaa, Villagization and Rural Development in Tanzania’, in O.D.I. Review (London), 1, 1975, pp. 53–72;Google Scholar and Raikes, Philip, ‘Ujamaa and Rural Socialism’, in Review of African Political Economy, 3 05–10, 1975, pp. 33–52.Google Scholar

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page 313 note 1 Livingstone, Ian, ‘Production, Price and Marketing Policies for Staple Foodstuffs in Tanzania’, in Amann, V. F. (ed.), Agricultural Policy Issues in East Africa (Kampala, 1973).Google Scholar