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Article 1 by @esulle46 .

Land Grabbing and Agricultural Commercialization Duality: Insights from Tanzania’s Transformation Agenda.

Afriche e Orienti (Italian Journal on African and Middle Eastern Studies), 17 (3): 109-128. Permanent link: aiepeditore.com/portfolio-arti…
“Farmers and pastoralists at the grassroots level are keen to see an increase in investments in the agricultural sector, but they are not willing to give up their land to investors”.

This article addresses diverse responses to and local politics of contested commercialisation.
Article 2 by @esulle46

Social Differentiation and the Politics of Land: Sugar Cane Outgrowing in Kilombero, Tanzania, Journal of Southern African Studies, 43 (3): 517-533. Permanent link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
After privatisation of sugar estates in Tanzania, "Large-scale outgrowers have rapidly captured the most lucrative business opportunities and the land they require, marginalising smaller outgrowers." Political elites & local communities compete.
Article 3 by @esulle46 and Helen Dancer

Gender, politics and sugarcane commercialisation in Tanzania, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 47 (5); 973 – 992. Permanent link: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
By shining a light on the gender politics of agricultural commercialisation in #Tanzania, they find that "politico-economic changes in the sector post-privatisation have increased gender differentiation in sugarcane production and consolidated power in the hands of local elites."
Article 4 by @esulle46

Outgrowing and the politics of inclusive business models in Tanzanian agriculture, Asian Journal of African Studies.

Permanent link: dbpia.co.kr/journal/articl…
Although hyped as ‘inclusive business models’, corporate expansion into smallholder agriculture in Africa has been critiqued as ‘land grabbing’. @esulle46 finds that "there are winners and losers in such business arrangements"
Here's the first key paper in which @esulle46 sets out the contentions over #landgrabbing and promotion of 'devevlopment' and 'commercialisation' in #Tanzania and in particular in the privatised sugar industry. (Free download)
researchgate.net/publication/30…
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