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| Title: | Globalization and environmental management: prospects for sustainable development in eastern and southern Africa |
| Author: | Rugumamu, William |
| Book title: | Globalization, democracy and development in Africa: challenges and prospects |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Pages: | 217-243 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Tanzania |
| Subjects: | global economy agricultural development small farms land use agricultural land agricultural ecology |
| Abstract: | In eastern and southern Africa the agricultural sector forms a primary source of livelihood for the majority of the population who are smallholders. Modern-day smallholder farmers are increasingly integrated into the national and global economy at the expense of local economic and ecological conditions. There is a general tendency towards vertical integration of the production chain with transnationals, as providers of technology, inputs and credits, increasingly controlling all stages from production to marketing in both developed and developing countries. Profitability and not sustainability is the driving force. A case study of contemporary land-use types and environmental management technologies, both traditional and modern, and their effects on the productivity of the natural resource base in Bahi-Sokoni village, in semiarid central Tanzania, serves as a basis for guiding a search for sustainable socioeconomic development and biodiversity conservation strategies under globalization. For smallholders to command their economy and ecology they need encouragement and support to strengthen their innovative and creative capacities. Traditional environmental technology systems are capable of leading agricultural transformation processes. There are democratic opportunities for enhancing smallholder farmers' food self-sufficiency and environmental sustainability using participatory approaches as a basis for facilitating the opportunities globalization brings. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
