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Examines the impact of liberalizing trade in staple food commodities.The author shows the way grain traders and households in five Tanzanian towns were affected by the Tanzanian government's decision to opt for liberalization in the trade of two staple food crops: rice and maize.

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This is the sort of informed and well-grounded study that makes an important contribution to what has happened in Africa and why. In doing so it provides an antidote to the portrayals of Tanzanian socialism and capitalism -- Joel Samoff * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *
This is an important book in the documenting of recent Tanzanian history. * DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW *

Table of Contents
Introduction - Post-Independence Egalitarian Goals & E conomic Crisis - Marketing Made Difficult: Food Supply Flu ctuations & Marketing Policy 1939-1973 - State Regulat ion of Staple Food Supply 1973-1988 - Traders' Journey fro m Black to Parallel to Open Markets - Traders & Urban Food Markets - Satisfying Urban Consumers - Trade-offs on Trade: Food Market Liberalization

Liberalizing Tanzanias Food Trade

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      Publisher James Currey
      Published 4 February 1993
      ISBN-13 9780852551349
      978-0852551349
      ISBN-10 0852551347
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      Agriculture and agribusiness

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines the impact of liberalizing trade in staple food commodities.The author shows the way grain traders and households in five Tanzanian towns were affected by the Tanzanian government's decision to opt for liberalization in the trade of two staple food crops: rice and maize.

      Trade Review
      This is the sort of informed and well-grounded study that makes an important contribution to what has happened in Africa and why. In doing so it provides an antidote to the portrayals of Tanzanian socialism and capitalism -- Joel Samoff * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *
      This is an important book in the documenting of recent Tanzanian history. * DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW *

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - Post-Independence Egalitarian Goals & E conomic Crisis - Marketing Made Difficult: Food Supply Flu ctuations & Marketing Policy 1939-1973 - State Regulat ion of Staple Food Supply 1973-1988 - Traders' Journey fro m Black to Parallel to Open Markets - Traders & Urban Food Markets - Satisfying Urban Consumers - Trade-offs on Trade: Food Market Liberalization

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