ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Andrew Coulson worked as an economist in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives in Dar es Salaam from 1967 – 1971 and taught economics at the University of Dar es Salaam from 1972 to 1976. He taught at the University of Bradford, England from 1976 to 1982, and at Birmingham University from 1984, where he specialized in matters relating to local government in the UK. Since 2006 he has made regular visits to Tanzania, and published a range of articles related to agriculture in Tanzania. A second edition of his book Tanzania: A Political Economy was published in 2013. He is current Chair of the UK branch of The Britain-Tanzania Society.

Antony Ellman is an agronomist and socio-economist. He first worked in Tanzania from 1962 to 1970, as manager of the co-operative farm at Upper Kitete, near Arusha, then as planner and advisor on smallholder development in the Ministry of Lands, Settlement and Rural Development based in Dar es Salaam, but working in every region of the country. He spent the next twenty five years doing similar work in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Sri Lanka and many other countries of Africa, Asia, South Pacific, and the Caribbean, before returning to Tanzania in the mid 1990s to establish a smallholder tea and forestry programme in the Usambara Mountains. Since then he has undertaken consultancies in Tanzania and elsewhere on conservation agriculture, fair trade and linking farmers to markets, particularly for the antimalarial plant Artemisia annua.

Emmanuel Reuben Mbiha was born in Kasulu, Tanzania. He is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania and was Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness from 2000 to 2005. He was awarded a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Wye College, University of London (Now Imperial College) in 1993. He started work as an Agricultural Extension Officer, later moving on to an academic position in agricultural economics. He has wide-ranging research experience in agricultural economics, post graduate research guidance and community outreach.