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Africa’S Unfolding Diet Transformation And Farm Employment: Evidence From Tanzania

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  • Tschirley, David
  • Cunguara, Benedito
  • Haggblade, Steven
  • Reardon, Thomas
  • Kondo, Mayuko

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We investigate the implications of diet change associated with income growth for the level and distribution of employment and income earning opportunities at farm level in Tanzania. We find that (1) rice provides strong opportunities for labor and income growth among the smallest smallholder farmers, (2) vegetables deliver strong income growth for these small farmers, but generate far less labor, (3) other grains, pulses, and roots & tubers generate labor growth but with less concentration of benefits among the smallest farmers and with very low returns to labor, and (4) all labor growth in these crops is highly sensitive to productivity growth associated with farm structure change.

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  • Tschirley, David & Cunguara, Benedito & Haggblade, Steven & Reardon, Thomas & Kondo, Mayuko, 2017. "Africa’S Unfolding Diet Transformation And Farm Employment: Evidence From Tanzania," Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Papers 259542, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP).
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    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.259542
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    1. John Gibson & Kathleen Beegle & Joachim De Weerdt & Jed Friedman, 2015. "What does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 77(3), pages 466-474, June.
    2. McCullough, Ellen B., 2015. "Understanding Agricultural Labor Exits in Tanzania," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 206080, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
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