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The Uluguru Land Usage Scheme: Success and Failure
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1980
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Land UseEconomic DevelopmentAgricultural EconomicsEnvironmental PlanningSocial SciencesOwn CountryLand-use PlanningAfrican DevelopmentUluguru Land SchemeEconomicsLand DevelopmentGeographyAgrarian Political EconomyLand AppropriationLand ManagementBusinessNatural Resource EconomicsDevelopment PolicyPlanned Agriculture
At a time when Tanzania is engaging in planned settlement to an unprecedented degree, consideration of an earlier example of planned agriculture may help the current rulers learn from past experience in their own country. This paper is an analysis of the positive and the negative aspects of the Uluguru Land Scheme (1949-55) with an aim of analyzing what went wrong so that such failure need not be repeated. The whole affair admirably illustrates the following hypothesis: