@article{1468430,
      recid = {1468430},
      author = {Metzger, Jonas.},
      title = {More than a resource -- the social significance of local  seed systems and seed exchange in the Global South : the  example of Tanzania /},
      publisher = {Springer VS,},
      address = {Wiesbaden :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that  affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study  on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed  systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of  smallholder life worlds. Using the example of seeds, the  close interweaving of agricultural and social practice is  traced and it is worked out how individual processes of  modernisation brought in from outside have far-reaching  consequences for smallholder coexistence. The study  provides a concrete, detailed and differentiated account of  everyday farming life and how smallholder households deal  with seeds. A particular focus is on seed exchange  relationships and how these provide both social security  and social cohesion in the study region. The study is based  on extensive field research and intensive interviews with  farmers, who also have their own say in the work. The  author Dr. Jonas Metzger conducts research on social  transformation processes in Southern Africa and East Africa  at the Institute of Sociology at Justus Liebig University  in Giessen. This book is a translation of an original  German edition. The translation was done with the help of  artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service  DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily  in terms of content, so that the book will read  stylistically differently from a conventional translation.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1468430},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40011-8},
}