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Chinese sisal estates and smallholder land uses and livelihoods, Kilosa, Central Tanzania

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  • Li, Puyang
  • Zhang, Yujia
  • Turner, B.L.
  • Li, Wei

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The impacts of large-scale agribusiness, commonly associated with land grabbing, on smallholder livelihoods in Africa have been the subject of an expansive array of research that tends to focus on socioeconomic or environmental issues. This study examines the nexus of smallholder land-livelihood dynamics from 2000 to 2018 owing to the resurrection of fiber estates in the “sisal belt” of Kilosa, Tanzania. Here, Chinese firms have restored former colonial sisal estates, offering wage opportunities to neighboring communities, giving rise to commercial rice production among smallholders and incentivizing in-migration with its increasing demands for subsistence agricultural land. The combination of estate, subsistence, and rice cultivation has enhanced smallholder livelihoods on average, suggesting positive impacts of the fiber estates. These emerging conditions, however, have generated significant landscape changes, which foretell impacts on environmental services. These dynamics of land systems are revealed through the lens of remote sensing data, field surveys and observations, and SURE models.

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  • Li, Puyang & Zhang, Yujia & Turner, B.L. & Li, Wei, 2024. "Chinese sisal estates and smallholder land uses and livelihoods, Kilosa, Central Tanzania," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:177:y:2024:i:c:s0305750x24000287
    DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106558
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