ABSTRACT This article engages with the feminist concept of ‘social reproduction’ to arrive at a richer understanding gendered processes and outcomes contemporary large‐scale land acquisitions, or ‘new enclosures’. It focuses on case recent deal for industrial sugarcane production in Coast Region Tanzania resultant process involuntary resettlement. critically analyses people's struggles face imminent displacement, ways they experience erosion their pre‐existing modes social reproduction....

This article examines a long-standing conflict over resource control between rural village, national park, and an agro-industrial investment project in Bagamoyo District, Coast Region of Tanzania. Taking historical political–ecological approach to analyzing the new enclosures postcolonial nation-building Africa, advances two interrelated arguments. First, it argues that there is analytical empirical need consider "land–water" as coupled resource, particularly coastal riverine landscapes. In...

The contemporary international development agenda addresses several important gender issues, including the contribution of unpaid care work (UCW) to human well-being. inclusion UCW into mainstream policy debate is undoubtedly a major milestone in history feminist scholarship and activism. However, we argue that universalistic capitalocentric assumptions laden dominant discourse belie diversity lived experiences subjective meanings often performed by women girls different cultural...

Abstract Over the past decade, there has been a surge in large‐scale land acquisitions around world. Yet, increasing evidence suggests that many of prominent deals signed during global rush are struggling to materialise. This emergent pattern liminality important implications for understanding everyday, contingent, and gendered processes deal governance subject formation. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines “liminal” coastal Tanzania, through case EcoEnergy Sugar Project....

Abstract This article examines how the threat of eviction by a transnational land deal in coastal Tanzania shaped competing narratives with which longtime residents and migrants defended legitimated moral economy land: widely shared customary norm that belonged to those who cleared, occupied, used it continuously for their daily provisioning, or without title deeds. To counter state's claim all villagers were “invaders,” long‐term appealed ethnic ancestral connections land, while invoked...

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This article examines the discourse and practice of sustainable livestock intensification in Africa, using Tanzania as an analytic case. Drawing on archival ethnographic research, I argue growing interest animal genetic improvement name efficiency sustainability mirrors earlier, incomplete colonial cattle crossbreeding experiments. These efforts were justified by need to improve yields while conserving environment ultimately facilitated state control over bodies indigenous peoples animals....

High prevalence of stunting in Singida, Tanzania has been attributed to sub‐optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. To evaluate the appropriateness a proposed participatory agroecological nutrition peer education intervention for improving IYCF growth, we described assessed covariates suboptimal A cross‐sectional survey was conducted with mothers fathers households children <2 years (n=322). Multivariate logistic regression used analyze exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) <6...

Abstract In 2012, three male elders in Tanzania filed a lawsuit against the government and foreign investor for trespassing, justifying case as rightful resistance to land grabbing. Based on ethnographic research, however, Chung argues that their action is more appropriately understood gendered lawfare; plaintiffs drew multiple positions of privilege exclude diverse array legitimate resource users, including wives. Their lawfare was not only perverse its design, but also effects. It...