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Agricultural Policies in Mainland Tanzania, 1946–76

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Rural Development in Tropical Africa

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Government is taking an ever-increasing part in stimulating development; the old idea that Colonial governments exist solely to maintain law and order with the addition of social services is fast giving way to a more active conception … John Wakefield, Planner of the Groundnuts Scheme (1946).

This article was written as part of a research project on the political economy of Tanzania, which will be published in 1981 as Tanzania 1800–1980: A Political Economy (Oxford University Press).

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    Judith Heyer (Economist) (Economist)

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  3. Department of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK

    Pepe Roberts (Social Anthropologist) (Social Anthropologist)

  4. St Peter’s College, Oxford, UK

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Coulson, A. (1981). Agricultural Policies in Mainland Tanzania, 1946–76. In: Heyer, J., Roberts, P., Williams, G. (eds) Rural Development in Tropical Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05318-6_3

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