Tanzania in Transition: From Nyerere to Mkapa

Contributors

Contributors Jumanne M. Abdallah is conducting research and teaching at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania. He holds a PhD in forest economics from the same university and he is engaged in a number of research projects focusing on community and participatory forestry and various aspects of forest economics in cooperation with other Tanzanian and foreign university departments. Deborah Fahy Bryceson holds a PhD from Oxford University and is currently a reader at Glasgow University. She has long experience from research on Tanzanian and Sub-Saharan issues in Tanzanian and British universities. Her research straddles a number of critical issues related to African development, among them the role of agriculture and smallholder production, rural transport, mining, HIV and AIDS and rural development, food security, the role of the IMF and the World Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has published numerous books and articles in scholarly journals related to her long term research. Brian Cooksey holds a PhD in sociology and has been a researcher and teacher at universities in Britain and the University of Dar es Salaam. He has been based in Dar es Salaam since the late 1970s. He has authored books, scholarly articles and reports on various aspects of Tanzanian development, including agriculture and rural development, the impact of international assistance and, in particular, on corruption and governance issues. He established the research based organisation, TADREG, but has also worked for a number of Tanzanian research institutes, among them REPOA. Cooksey is presently an independent consultant and researcher. Jonas Ewald is a researcher at the School of Global Studies, the University of Gothenburg. He was the co-initiator and for some time the leader of the Centre for African Studies at the same university. His research focuses mainly on Tanzania and Rwanda and on issues related to governance including democratisation, decentralisation, participation and the quality of public service delivery. He has an intimate knowledge of manyTanzanian rural regions from his wide research experience in the country. Kjell Havnevik is senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute and professor in development studies at the University of Agder, Norway. He has more than three decades of experience from research and higher education in Norwegian, Swedish and Tanzanian research institutes and universities.Hisresearchemphasisisonruraldevelopment,naturalresource management, rural diversification, development assistance and the role of the World Bank in Tanzania and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has published a number of books and articles about various Tanzanian development issues and he led the team of researchers conducting the “Tanzanian Country Study and Aid Review”, published by the University of Bergen in 1988 and the study on “African Agriculture and the World Bank”, published by the Nordic Africa Institute in 2007. AidaC.IsinikaisanassociateprofessoratSokoineUniversityofAgriculture (SUA),Tanzania in the Institute of Continuing Education, with a mandate for teaching, research and outreach. She teaches production economics and other courses, and supervises undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness and in the Institute of Development Studies. She has published and done consulting work on various aspects of development, particularly focusing on resource use efficiency. She is currently on leave from the university, coordinating the Agricultural Scale Up Initiative in Tanzania under Oxfam. Gerald C. Monela holds a PhD of forest economics from the University of Life Sciences in Norway. He has been the dean of the Forest Faculty at the Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania and was elected vice chancellor of the same university in 2006, a position he still holds. He has wide research and teaching experience related to forest economics, community and participatory forestry, natural resource management related to forestry. Monela is a member of the board of several important Tanzanian institutions and he has been the author of many important reports and studies related to forest and natural resource management, development assistance and research organisation with a focus on Tanzania and Sub-Saharan Africa. Khamaldin Mutabazi is a lecturer at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, teaching econometrics, mathematics for economists and micro-computer data handling. He has previously worked with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) – Tanzania as a regional scientist. He has published various papers on a range of developmental issues, particularly focusing on institutional aspects of the environment – land and agricultural water management, and micro-level climate change adaptation economics which are still his areas of current research interest. Jarle Simensen is professor emeritus in African history at the University of Oslo. He has long experience from teaching...