Overview
- Seed systems and the socio-cultural structures of smallholder livelihoods
- Influence of seed trade on social structures in Tanzania
- With group discussion with two women and two men farmers in Namtumbo
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of smallholder life worlds. Using the example of seeds, the close interweaving of agricultural and social practice is traced and it is worked out how individual processes of modernisation brought in from outside have far-reaching consequences for smallholder coexistence. The study provides a concrete, detailed and differentiated account of everyday farming life and of how smallholder households deal with seeds. A particular focus is on seed exchange relationships and how these provide both social security and social cohesion in the study region. The study is based on extensive field research and intensive interviews with farmers, who also have their own say in the work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Jonas Metzger conducts research on social transformation processes in Southern Africa and East Africa at the Institute of Sociology at Justus Liebig University in Giessen.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: More than a resource - the social significance of local seed systems and seed exchange in the Global South
Book Subtitle: The example of Tanzania
Authors: Jonas Metzger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40011-8
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-40010-1Published: 01 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-40011-8Published: 31 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 185
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Anthropology, Anthropology