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When water is from God: formation of property rights governing communal irrigation furrows in Meru, Tanzania, c. 1890–2011

Ellen Hillbom Associate Professor, Department of Economic History, Lund University, PO Box 7083, SE-220 07, Lund, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 423-443 | Received 13 Oct 2011, Accepted 02 May 2012, Published online: 21 Aug 2012

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Elizabeth Harrison & Canford Chiroro. (2017) Differentiated legitimacy, differentiated resilience: beyond the natural in ‘natural disasters’. The Journal of Peasant Studies 44:5, pages 1022-1042.
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Ellen Hillbom. (2014) From millet to tomatoes: incremental intensification with high-value crops in contemporary Meru, Tanzania. Journal of Eastern African Studies 8:3, pages 400-419.
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Beth Ann Williams. (2022) “Bananas are for Women, Coffee is for Men”: Gendered Narratives of Agricultural Histories on Mount Meru, Tanzania. African Studies Review 65:1, pages 143-165.
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Amy Elizabeth Stambach & Aikande Clement Kwayu. (2021) Witness to a passing. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11:2, pages 412-427.
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Rebecca W. Kariuki, Linus K. Munishi, Colin J. Courtney-Mustaphi, Claudia Capitani, Anna Shoemaker, Paul J. Lane & Rob Marchant. (2021) Integrating stakeholders’ perspectives and spatial modelling to develop scenarios of future land use and land cover change in northern Tanzania. PLOS ONE 16:2, pages e0245516.
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Robin Biddulph & Ellen Hillbom. (2020) Registration of private interests in land in a community lands policy setting: An exploratory study in Meru district, Tanzania. Land Use Policy 99, pages 104830.
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Elizabeth Harrison. (2020) ‘People are willing to fight to the end’. Romanticising the ‘moral’ in moral economies of irrigation. Critique of Anthropology 40:2, pages 194-217.
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Martina Angela Caretta. (2015) Managing variability and scarcity. An analysis of Engaruka: A Maasai smallholder irrigation farming community. Agricultural Water Management 159, pages 318-330.
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Ellen Hillbom. (2012) Market institutions benefiting smallholders in contemporary Meru, Tanzania. The Journal of Modern African Studies 50:4, pages 657-679.
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