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Food Insecurity and the Social Division of Labour in Tanzania,1919-85

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1990
ISBN
0333519388, 9780333519387
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (28920708 bytes)
Series
St Antony's Series
Pages
308\304
Time added
2015-01-29 08:34:03

Description

Most studies of famine and the African food crisis stress how the socio-economic context influences the occurrence of food shortages. By contrast, this book argues that food insecurity itself influences the social and economic organization of the society. Through this approach, the author provides a new interpretation of the causes and consequences of Tanzania's present economic crisis. The book examines the effects of changing food availability on the functioning of the state, the market and clientage networks, over the past seven decades. The conclusion is that clientage is no less important than the state and market as an organizational force in Tanzanian society, and, under heightened food insecurity, the state and market lose ground to clientage.

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