Recent portrayals of the private sector as the engine of poverty alleviation in Africa's
agricultural growth corridors have sparked critique by scholars and activists alike. Land
acquisitions by investors are the most criticized but the private sector engages in corridors
in other ways on which research remains scarce. Idil Ires provides a political economy
analysis of whether smallholders prosper when they coordinate with input suppliers banks and
crop buyers through markets and contract farming in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor
of Tanzania. This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners from diverse fields offering
timely insights into a critical debate.
