Changes within Small-Scale Agriculture. A Case-Study from the Southwestern Tanzania

Abstract

Danish Journal of Geography 96: 60–69, 1996.

The objective of this paper is through a case study from the southern highlands of Tanzania, to illustrate how the agricultural system has changed within a period from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s in response to both endogenous and exogenous forces. The focus is primarily on the latest response at village level to the liberalization process within the agricultural sector in the early 1990s. New methods, by which remote sensing data from high resolution sensors are used as primary input, are analysed in relation to monitoring and to evaluate rapid land use changes.

Keywords:

• Tropical agriculture
• land use
• intensification
• remote sensing
• Landsat TM
• monitoring
• classification