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Title: | From Social Negotiation to Contract: Shifting Strategies of Farm Labor Recruitment in Tanzania under Market Liberalization |
Author: | Ponte, Stefano |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | World Development |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 6 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 1017-1030 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | economic policy labour recruitment rural households Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Labor and Employment Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00012-7 |
Abstract: | In Tanzania, previous to economic reforms, social mobilization of farm labour allowed the more marginalized sectors of rural society to pool their efforts together and overcome labour shortages. Market liberalization has increased the degree of commercialization of rural life due to easier access to incentive goods and higher cash needs. These factors, combined with agricultural liberalization, which opened new marketing options, have pushed farming households to shift from growing 'slow' crops to growing 'fast' crops for the market. This shift, in turn, has allowed farming households to ensure faster returns to their capital and a more evenly distributed cash flow thoughout the year. 'Fast' crops, however, need more labour in shorter periods of time than 'slow' ones. As a result, a system of contractual access to farm labour has substituted the system based on social negotiation, which could not meet the new labour needs of farming households. Consequently, socioeconomic inequality is increasing. The paper is based on data collected in 1995-1996 in Songea and Morogoro Rural Districts. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |