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Sustainable agricultural intensification in four Tanzanian villages—a view from the ground and the sky
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- Djurfeldt, Agnes Andersson (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Human Geography,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences
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- Hall, Ola (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Human Geography,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences
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- Isinika, Aida (author)
- Sokoine University of Agriculture
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- Msuya, Elibariki (author)
- Sokoine University of Agriculture
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- Yengoh, Genesis Tambang (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,LUCSUS,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies),Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences
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- 2020-10-09
- 2020
- English 20 s.
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In: Sustainability (Switzerland). - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 12:20
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Abstract
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- Agricultural intensification based on smallholders is among many economists viewed as a necessary developmental path to ensure food security and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Increasingly, a one-sided focus on raising productivity in cereals has been questioned on environmental grounds, with the concept of sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) emerging from the natural sciences as a way of advancing environmental and social needs simultaneously. SAI approaches have, however, been criticized for being both conceptually and methodologically vague. This study combines socioeconomic survey data with remotely sensed land productivity data and qualitative data from four villages in Tanzania. By triangulating and comparing data collected through ground level surveys and ground-truthing with remote sensing data, we find that this combination of methods is capable of resolving some of the theoretical and methodological vagueness found in SAI approaches. The results show the problems of relying on only one type of data when studying sustainable agricultural intensification and indicate the poor environmental outcomes of cereal monocropping, even when social outcomes may be forthcoming. We identify land use practices that can be considered both socially and environmentally sustainable. Theoretically, we contribute to a further problematization of the SAI concept.
Subject headings
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Annan lantbruksvetenskap -- Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Other Agricultural Sciences -- Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Social och ekonomisk geografi -- Ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Social and Economic Geography -- Economic Geography (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Agricultural productivity
- GIS
- Interdisciplinary approaches
- Smallholder agriculture
- Sustainable agricultural intensification
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- art (subject category)
- ref (subject category)
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