Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Research Questions and Conceptual Contexts
Introduction to the Area and the Research Questions
Conceptual Contexts
Chapter 2. Livelihood and Poverty in Tanga Region
Peasant Farming in Lowland Tanga
Poverty
Illness and Lost Workdays
Material Culture
Summary and Analysis
Chapter 3. Biophysical Environment and Local Knowledge
Topography and Geology
Climate
Soils
Vegetation
Some Examples of Local Knowledge
Chapter 4. Tanga's Regional History
Historical Events
Cultural and Demographic Character
Summary and Analysis
Chapter 5. Introducing the Eighteen Villages
Research Procedure
Student Researcher Assessments of the 18 Villages
Kwadundwa
Mgera
Kwediamba
Minazini
Kwamsisi
Mzundu
Kwamgwe
Mandera
Mlembule
Mkomazi
Vugiri
Magoma
Kisiwani
Kiwanda
Daluni
Mwakijembe
Maranzara (Pongwe)
Moa
Summary and Analysis
Chapter 6. Assessing Different Farm Management Practices
Introducing the Energy-Water Balance Model
Choice of Site and Soil
Choice of Crop
Growing Enough Food
Delay in Planting
Spacing of Crop
Intercropping
Provision of Supplemental Water
Summary and Analysis
Chapter 7. Drought, Food Shortages, and Ways of Coping
When Things Go Wrong
The 1953 Handeni Famine
Institutionalized Coping with Food Shortages
Strategies Adopted by Farmers to Cope with Drought and Food Shortages
Farmer Attitudes toward Nature
Changes in Crops Grown
Summary and Analysis
Chapter 8. Local Knowledge, Sustainability Science
Institutional Agricultural Research
Sustainable Transitions Elsewhere
A Sustainable Transition for Tanga Region?
The Task Ahead
Appendix A. Agrometeorological Modeling
Appendix B. Agroclimatological Survey of Tanga Region
Appendix C. Analysis of the Crop Calendars: Timing of Planting and Season Length for Maize
Appendix D. Chronology for Tanga Region
Notes
Bibliography
Index