ECONOMIC-REFORM AND SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE IN TANZANIA - A DISCUSSION OF RECENT MARKET LIBERALIZATION, ROAD REHABILITATION, AND TECHNOLOGYDISSEMINATION EFFORTS

This paper discusses the reforms affecting Tanzania's small-farm secto r during 1984-93. It focuses on changes in marketing and input supply, including the revival of regional cooperative societies, the ending o f the state monopoly in food crop procurement, and changes in the expo rt crop sector. Efforts to rehabilitate the country's road network, an d the effects of institutional change on a technology dissemination pr ogram, Sasakawa-Global 2000, are also discussed. The author concludes that improvements in the performance of the smallholder sector cannot be expected to follow automatically from a withdrawal of government.