Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania. Cover.
Allegretti, Antonio. Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania: Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local-Global Interface. Winwick: The White Horse Press, 2022.
Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a ‘rural’ community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based production? This book seeks to address questions like these. Rural people(s) in contemporary Africa are often conceived of in terms of how to efficiently integrate them into international markets and global value chains; this book analyses the question of integration of rural people in Tanzania by delving into how they deal with local-global connections and engage with policy objectives on their own terms, between local forms of associational life and global markets. In so doing, it explores local socio-economic dynamics that find little space in the national and global policy vision of a rural sector geared towards growth—a vision that is peculiar to African states, including Tanzania. (Source: The White Horse Press)
Antonio Allegretti is an anthropologist and a senior research associate in the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University.
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