EPAR RESEARCH BRIEF #257
Tue, 12/17/2013
AUTHORS: Alice Golenko, Elysia Slakie, C. Leigh Anderson, Mary Kay Gugerty
ABSTRACT:
The FAO defines a farming system as “a population of individual farm systems that have broadly similar resource bases, enterprise patterns, household livelihoods and constraints, and for which similar development strategies and interventions would be appropriate. Depending on the scale of the analysis, a farming system can encompass a few dozen or many millions of households.” We use the farming systems as defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for Sub-Saharan Africa. The FAO identifies eight main farming systems in Tanzania 1) maize mixed, 2) root crop, 3) coastal artisanal fishing, 4) highland perennial, 5) agro-pastoral millet/sorghum, 6) tree crop, 7) highland temperate mixed, and 8) pastoral. This analysis uses data from the Tanzanian National Panel Survey (TZNPS) LSMS – ISA to provide a comparison of farming systems throughout Tanzania. The TZNPS is a nationally-representative panel survey that includes households from seven of the eight FAO farming systems with only the smallest farming system, pastoral, lacking any representation.
TYPE OF RESEARCH: Data Analysis
RESEARCH TOPIC CATEGORY: Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods, Agricultural Inputs & Farm Management
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS: East Africa Region and Selected Countries
DATASET(S): LSMS & LSMS-ISA
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