What makes Tanzanian smallholder farmers satisfied with their life? It’s not farming!
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| Title: | Main Title: What makes Tanzanian smallholder farmers satisfied with their life? It’s not farming! |
| Description: | Abstract: It is widely assumed that farmers want to farm and that successful farming is positively associated with a farmer’s life satisfaction. Accordingly, especially development interventions in the Global South are focussed on upgrading and transforming rural farming landscapes under the general premise of raising productivity. However, growing evidence suggests that the assumed centrality of farming for life satisfaction is in question. The rise of trans-local and diversified livelihoods is permeating rural landscapes and new rural hopes, aspirations and livelihoods include more than “ just farming”. This study responds to a simple question: What makes smallholder farmers satisfied with their life? In doing so, it uses the case study of two agricultural clusters in Tanzania which have recently received massive financial and donor support to upgrade and transform smallholder agriculture. Based on survey data with 865 farming households, we use a multivariate logistic regression model to test for the effects of different agricultural and non-agricultural livelihood assets on the life satisfaction of smallholders. Our results suggest that just improving productivity-enhancing agricultural assets (agricultural capital, output, knowledge) is not significantly raising smallholders’ life satisfaction. Rather, more fundamental livelihood assets such as positionality (gender and age), savings and housing conditions have the strongest effect. |
| Identifier: | 10.12854/erde-2022-623 (DOI) |
| Citation Advice: | Victoria Luxen, Gideon Tups, Peter Dannenberg 2022: What makes Tanzanian smallholder farmers satisfied with their life? It’s not farming! – DIE ERDE 153 (4): online first |
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| Creators: | Victoria Luxen (Author), Gideon Tups (Author), Peter Dannenberg (Author) |
| Publisher: | Die ERDE - Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
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| TRR228 Topic: | Agriculture |
| Related Subproject: | C1 |
| Subjects: | Keywords: Agriculture, Rural Area, Future-making, Economic Geography |
| Geogr. Information Topic: | Farming |
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| Filename: | Luxen-2022.pdf |
| Data Type: | Text - Article |
| File Size: | 434 KB |
| Date: | Available: 12.12.2022 |
| Mime Type: | application/pdf |
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| Language: | English |
| Status: | Completed |
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| Download Permission: | Free |
| General Access and Use Conditions: | According to the TRR228DB data policy agreement. |
| Access Limitations: | According to the TRR228DB data policy agreement. |
| Licence: | [Creative Commons] Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
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| Publication Status: | Accepted |
| Review Status: | Peer reviewed |
| Publication Type: | Article |
| Article Type: | Journal |
| Source: | Die ERDE |
| Source Website: | https://www.die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/article/view/623 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Volume: | 153 |
| Number of Pages: | 5 (1 - 5) |
Metadata Details
| Metadata Creator: | Gideon Tups |
| Metadata Created: | 13.12.2022 |
| Metadata Last Updated: | 09.01.2023 |
| Subproject: | C1 |
| Funding Phase: | 2 |
| Metadata Language: | English |
| Metadata Version: | V50 |
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