Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996–2017

Torben Birch-Thomsen; Esbern Friis-Hansen

doi:10.1093/oso/9780198865872.001.0001

Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996–2017

Torben Birch-Thomsen^*, Esbern Friis-Hansen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The chapter traces the changing economic history of two villages from their status as frontier settlements with abundant land in the 1950s, to poor farming areas ill-endowed with infrastructure, to more prosperous settlements benefitting from commercialized tomato cultivation and good road connections to the regional capital. The wealth is visible in the larger number of higher-quality houses which are being constructed. There are also changes in local perceptions of what wealth and poverty mean. Finally the chapter presents different sorts of strategies which capture the ways in which residents have responded to the opportunities and circumstances around them.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Prosperity in Rural Africa? : Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania
Editors	Dan Brockington, Christine Noe
Number of pages	23
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	2021
Pages	315-338
Chapter	15
ISBN (Print)	9780198865872
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865872.001.0001
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

Faculty of Science
Poverty
Prosperity
Agriculture
Tomatoes
Iringa

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Birch-Thomsen, T., & Friis-Hansen, E. (2021). Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996–2017. In D. Brockington, & C. Noe (Eds.), Prosperity in Rural Africa?: Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania (pp. 315-338). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865872.001.0001

Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996–2017. / Birch-Thomsen, Torben; Friis-Hansen, Esbern.
Prosperity in Rural Africa?: Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania. ed. / Dan Brockington; Christine Noe. Oxford University Press, 2021. p. 315-338.

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Birch-Thomsen, T & Friis-Hansen, E 2021, Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996–2017. in D Brockington & C Noe (eds), Prosperity in Rural Africa?: Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania. Oxford University Press, pp. 315-338. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865872.001.0001

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