A socio-economic history of coffee production in Mbinga District, Tanzania, c. 1920 - 2015
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ehlers, Anton | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kangalawe, Hezron | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Komba, Yustina Samwel | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.other | Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of History. | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-04T14:07:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-21T14:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-04T14:07:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-21T14:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-03 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research focused on the foundation, development, fortunes, and socio-economic impact of the coffee industry on smallholder coffee producers in the Mbinga District for the period from 1920 to 2015. Drawing on archival and oral sources, it analysed the historical interactions between the coffee actors in the coffee industry, namely the state, the co-operatives, private coffee enterprises, and smallholder coffee producers. In the process, Gavin Fridell’s “coffee statecraft” and James Scott’s “weapon of theweak” approaches are utilised as theoretical points of departure. While the colonial state laid the foundation for state control of the coffee industry through the co-operative marketing system, the postcolonial state’s interventions shaped the trajectory of the coffee industry between the 1960s and 1990 under the Ujamaa policy. TheEuropean Economic Community grant for the coffee-improvement programmes between 1977 and the late 1980s influenced the expansion of the coffee industry in the Mbinga District.From the late 1980s, the Tanzanian government implemented economic liberalisation which marked the end of Ujamaa principles and the transition from state monopoly to the free-market system. The research demonstrates how the transition from the state monopoly of coffee production under co-operative societies to co-existence with the private enterprises has resulted in entrenched hegemonic and exploitative practices at the expense of smallholder coffee producers between the 1990s and 2015. There is also a focus on the role of women in coffee production and marketing in the Mbinga District over time. While coffee has been regarded as “man’s crop”, the complexity of women’s participation in coffee production and marketing is revealed in the findings. This thesis argues that the history of the coffee industry in the Mbinga District evolvedthrough the interaction between the state, the coffee producers, co-operativesand later private coffee enterprises, all of which have impacted on the socio-economic livelihood and fortunes of the smallholder coffee producers in a variety of ways. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die navorsing het gefokus op die ontstaan, ontwikkeling, wedervaringe en sosio-ekonomiese impak vandie koffie-industrie op die kleinboer-koffieprodusente in die Mbinga-distrik van 1920 tot 2015. Die historiese interaksie tussen die rolspelers in die koffie-industrie, naamlik die staat, die koöperatiewe verenigings, privaat koffiemaatskappye en die kleinboer-koffieprodusente is ontleed met behulp van argivale en mondelinge bronne. In die proses is Gavin Fridell se “coffee statecraft” en James Scott se “weapons of the weak” asteoretiese vertrekpunte gebruik. Die grondslag vir die staatsbeheer van die koffie-industrie in Tanzanië deur middel van die koöperatiewe bemarkingstelsel is tydens die koloniale tydperk gelê. In die post-koloniale tydperk, dit is van die 1960’s tot 1990, het staatsinmenging die koffie-industrie deur middel van die Ujamaa-beleid beïnvloed en gevorm. Die Europese Ekonomiese Gemeenskap se skenking vir die finansiering van koffie-verbeteringsprogramme tussen 1977 en die laat 1980’s het die uitbreiding van die koffie-industrie in die Mbinga-distrik beïnvloed. Sedert die laat 1980’s het die regering van Tanzanië ʼn beleid van ekonomiese liberalisering ingevoer. Dit het die Ujamaa-beginsels vervang en ʼn oorgang van staatsmonopolie tot ʼn vryemarkstelsel ingelui. Die navorsing het aangetoon dat hierdie oorgang van staatsmonopolie oor koffieproduksie onder koöperatiewe verenigings tot ʼn stelsel van medebestaan met nuwe privaat maatskappye tussen die 1990’s en 2015 gelei het tot die verskansing van bestaande uitbuitende en dominerende praktyke tot nadeel van die koffie-kleinboere.Die rol van vroue in koffieproduksie en bemarking in die Mbinga-distrik en hoe dit mettertyd verander het, kom ook onder bespreking. Navorsing het getoon dat, ten spyte van die feit dat koffie as ʼn “man’s crop” beskou is, vroue se aandeel in koffieproduksie en bemarking baie meer kompleks is as wat algemeen aanvaar is. Die proefskrif argumenteer dus dat die geskiedenis van die koffie-industrie in Mbinga-distrik ontwikkel het deur ʼn interaksie tussen die staat, koffieprodusente,koöperatieween later ook privaat koffiemaatskappye wat die bestaansmoontlikhede en ervarings van koffie-kleinboere op verskeie maniere beïnvloed en bepaal het. | af_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Doctoral | en_ZA |
| dc.format.extent | xvi, 291 pages : illustrations, map | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110006 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Coffee industry -- Mbinga District (Tanzania) | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Coffee industry -- Mbinga District (Tanzania) -- Economic conditions | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Coffee industry -- Mbinga District (Tanzania) -- History -- c. 1920-2015 | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | UCTD | en_ZA |
| dc.title | A socio-economic history of coffee production in Mbinga District, Tanzania, c. 1920 - 2015 | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |