Current published papers are
Östberg, W., Howland, O., Mduma, J. and Brockington, D. 2018. Tracing Improving Livelihoods in Rural Africa Using Local Measures of Wealth: A Case Study from Central Tanzania, 1991–2016. Land 7 (44): 1-26. See here
Brockington, D., O. Howland, V.-M. Loiske, M. Mnzava and C. Noe 2018. Economic Growth, Rural Assets and Prosperity. Exploring the implications of a twenty year record of asset growth in Tanzania. Journal of Modern African Studies 56 (2): 217-243. See here.
Furthermore, we have written a chapter for a book soon to be published, edited by David Potts, Tanzanian Development in an International Perspective. Our chapter is called Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania.
This summary of our work by Steve Wiggins is also available here for the website and here for the pdf.
Papers in Review include
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A paper about wealth definition - in this paper, Olivia Howland, Dan Brockington and Christine Noe explore the differences in the way Tanzanians describe and define wealth. What is wealth? Do these definitions vary by region? Are there gendered differences in the way people understand wealth? These questions and more are explored in this paper, which is currently in preparation, using data from oral histories, focus groups, and wealth rankings.
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What has coffee disease got to do with gender in Arumeru District? In this paper, Olivia Howland, Christine Noe and Dan Brockington get to the bottom of traditional gender roles, specifically ideas of masculinity, tradition, and woman-ness within the context of the Meru coffee depression. This paper, which is in preparation, uses data from focus groups, informal and formal interviews, and participant observation with men and women in 3 Meru villages. Christine uses her insight as a Meru woman to deepen our understanding of these complex issues.
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Why do domestic units matter? Dan, Brockington, Anna Mdee Olivia Howland, Sara Randal and Tina Coast, have been working on a paper which explores the viability and practicality of understanding assets in the context of the domestic unit, for livelihoods research in Africa.
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A case study of change in Rukwa region, Tanzania, which examines the impact of a small commodity boom on village welfare.
Copies of these papers are available on request from Dan Brockington. A further 10 case studies are in final stages of preparation.
We also hosted an exhibition of paintings at the Sheffield Winter Gardens, which featured Olivia Howland's artwork and which ran from Sunday 5th November to Saturday 11th November 2017 to communicate some of the findings of the project to a broader audience.