Sustainability in the context of natural and social environments. An actor-oriented interpretation from South-West Tanzania
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: “The people in the villages simply don’t know how to use their land. They cultivate the same plot again and again and then are surprised that their harvests are poor and that they finally don’t have enough to eat. They don’t know how to use their land in the right way and they won’t listen to us. Their own ignorance is their worst enemy!” (BWANA SHAMBA, March 1995). The agricultural advisor (bwana shamba), quoted above complaining about the ignorance and stubbornness of farmers on the Ufipa-Plateau in south-west Tanzania (Fig. 2) in the mid 1990s and citing them as causes for nutritional problems in the area, is in fact using a line of argumentation that is relatively widespread. In this understanding, food deficits among individuals and households – the foolproof indicator of poverty, also in the eyes of the people at the centre of this study – are fundamentally connected with people’s deficient adaptation to their natural environment. De170 Erdkunde Band 56/2002
Source: Erdkunde
Author: Sabine Tröger
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Zero hunger, No poverty
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2011447433