Staff Publications: Recent submissions
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Measuring Rice Price Volatility and Its Determinants in Tanzania: An Implication for Price Stabilization Policies
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2022)High price volatility in agricultural food markets has a greater impact not only on smallholder farmers but also can affect the incomes and purchasing power of a substantial proportion of the Tanzanian population and ... -
Commercialization of Smallholder Agriculture in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania
(Institute of Rural Development Planning, 2022-03)Tanzania seeks to achieve a semi-industrialized economy by 2025. In this envisioned economy, commercialization of smallholder agriculture, which provides the necessary raw materials and a market for industrial products is ... -
Effect Of Inputs On Production And Variability Of Introduced Chicken Strains At Farm Level: A Case Of Small Chicken Keepers In Selected Areas Of Tanzania
(Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2021-06)This study investigated the effect of inputs on the production and variability of introduced chicken strains. The study applied the developmental research design, which involves provision of 25 six-week old chicks to 20 ... -
Milking Hygiene and Handling Practices among Smallholder Dairy Farmers in Zanzibar
(European Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences, 2021-12-20)The livestock farming especially dairy industry is among the important components of the livestock sector in Zanzibar in terms source of animal protein, income, and employment. The present study was meant to investigate ... -
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF SMALLHOLDERS AND SMALLHOLDING
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OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF SMALLHOLDERS AND SMALLHOLDING
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OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF SMALLHOLDERS AND SMALLHOLDING
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Technical, allocative and economic efficiencies of keeping newly introduced chicken strains among smallholder farmers in selected areas of Tanzania: an application of stochastic data envelopment analysis approach
(International Scholars Journals, 2022-01)The study was conducted to investigate the technical, allocative and economic efficiency of keeping introduced chicken strain; Kuroiler and Sasso at the farm level by using the input constrained Stochastic Data Envelopment ... -
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF SMALLHOLDERS AND SMALLHOLDING
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Impact of Agricultural Policy Fluidity on Trust Among Youth Coffee Farmers in Tanzania: An Application of Difference in Difference Method
(International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022-01-21)Abstract: The present paper assesses impact of agricultural policy fluidity on youths’ trustworthiness in abiding to contracts with private investors in the coffee sector in Tanzania. In the 2018/19 coffee season, the ... -
A Report on the Empowerment of Consumers of Regulated Communications Goods and Services in Selected Districts in Tanzania
(Institute of Rural Development Planning, 2017-06)As part of its operation programme for the year 2016/2017, the Council commissioned a study to assess the empowerment of consumers of regulated communications goods and services. The study objective was to gather and analyse ... -
Agriculture for Rural Development in Tanzania
(TEMA Publishers Co. Limited, Dar es Salaam, 2020-06)His Excellency President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli’s speech given during the dissolution of the 11th parliament in Dodoma, Tanzania, on 16th June 2020 “Along with other things, we have continued to place emphasis on ... -
Industrial Development: The Past, Present and Future
(2020-06)“As I inaugurated this Parliament in 2015, I remember promising that my government would continue the efforts of previous administrations to boost the economy as well as to tackle the problems of poverty and unemployment. ... -
Empowering or Disempowering Women? A Challenge for Microfinance NGOs Supporting Women Entrepreneurs for Poverty Reduction in Dodoma Municipality, Tanzania
(IRDP, 2013-02)Abstract In many developing countries, women are poorer than men. To address this inequality, NGOs operating in these countries have introduced microfinance programmes towards women empowerment. However, little information ... -
A gendered users′ perspective on decentralized primary health services in rural Tanzania
(IRDP, 2008-11)Since the 1990s, Tanzania has been implementing health sector reforms including decentralization of primary healthcare services to districts and users. The impact of the reforms on the access, quality and appropriateness ... -
Institutional arrangements for decentralized water and health services delivery in rural Tanzania:
(IRDP, 2008-04)Abstract In recent years, decentralization has been upheld by governments, donors and policy makers in many developing countries as a means of improving public services although opinion is divided on the link between ... -
COOPERATION AND TRUST IN THE CONTEXT OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORMS IN RURAL TANZANIA
(IRDP, 2012-09)Abstract This paper investigates the impact of decentralization reforms on cooperation and trust at the village level in Tanzania, using a gender perspective. The paper draws on survey and qualitative data from ten ... -
Gender perspectives on decentralisation and service users’ participation in rural Tanzania
(IRDP, 2011-06)A B S T R A C T Increasing participation in decision-making processes by service users is one of the objectives of decentralisation reforms in Tanzania. The argument is that decentralisation enhances participation by ... -
Users’ perspectives on decentralized rural water services in Tanzania
(IRDP, 2008-11)Abstract This article examines the impact of decentralization reforms on improving access to domestic water supply in the rural districts of Kondoa and Kongwa, Tanzania, using a users’ and a gender perspective. The ... -
Decision Making Under the Tree:
(IRDP, 2011-07)This study is about the impact of decentralization reforms on service delivery in rural villages in Tanzania from a gender perspective. Decentralization has emerged as an important trend in development policy and discourse ...