Challenging Nature Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania

Name: Challenging Nature Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania
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ISBN: 9780226675800

ISBN-10: 0226675807

ISBN-13: 9780226675800

Edition: 2005

Authors: Philip W. Porter

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Tanga Region, Tanzania, is an area of persistent rural poverty with a long history of drought, floods, food shortages, famine, and social and economic disruption. Though farmers have been cultivating the land therenbsp;for hundreds of years, they have consistently been unable to supply adequate food for the region's inhabitants. In Challenging Nature, Philip Porter examines eighteen farming communities to understand what the farmers there know about their environment and which historical and economic factors play into the lack of food security.nbsp; Porter first began work on this project in 1972, asking 250 farmers in the region about life history, environmental and agricultural changes,…

Book details

List price: $74.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Research Questions and Conceptual Contexts


Introduction to the Area and the Research Questions


Conceptual Contexts



Livelihood and Poverty in Tanga Region


Peasant Farming in Lowland Tanga


Poverty


Illness and Lost Workdays


Material Culture


Summary and Analysis



Biophysical Environment and Local Knowledge


Topography and Geology


Climate


Soils


Vegetation


Some Examples of Local Knowledge



Tanga's Regional History


Historical Events


Cultural and Demographic Character


Summary and Analysis



Introducing the Eighteen Villages


Research Procedure


Student Researcher Assessments of the 18 Villages


Kwadundwa


Mgera


Kwediamba


Minazini


Kwamsisi


Mzundu


Kwamgwe


Mandera


Mlembule


Mkomazi


Vugiri


Magoma


Kisiwani


Kiwanda


Daluni


Mwakijembe


Maranzara (Pongwe)


Moa


Summary and Analysis



Assessing Different Farm Management Practices


Introducing the Energy-Water Balance Model


Choice of Site and Soil


Choice of Crop


Growing Enough Food


Delay in Planting


Spacing of Crop


Intercropping


Provision of Supplemental Water


Summary and Analysis



Drought, Food Shortages, and Ways of Coping


When Things Go Wrong


The 1953 Handeni Famine


Institutionalized Coping with Food Shortages


Strategies Adopted by Farmers to Cope with Drought and Food Shortages


Farmer Attitudes toward Nature


Changes in Crops Grown


Summary and Analysis



Local Knowledge, Sustainability Science


Institutional Agricultural Research


Sustainable Transitions Elsewhere


A Sustainable Transition for Tanga Region?


The Task Ahead



Agrometeorological Modeling



Agroclimatological Survey of Tanga Region



Analysis of the Crop Calendars: Timing of Planting and Season Length for Maize



Chronology for Tanga Region


Notes


Bibliography


Index