Sustaining Livelihoods through Organic Agriculture in Tanzania - UMB

Acknowledgements
This research would not have been possible without the generous assistance of
individuals and institutions too numerous to mention here. I would, however, like to
record my most sincere thanks to my supervisor in Norway, Dr. Geir Lieblein, for
being a bastion of support at every stage in the research, and for asking fascinating
questions which have taken me into new realms of discovery. I am also very grateful
to Dr. Charles Francis, from the University of Nebraska, for his encouraging,
thoughtful and positive inputs, to Dr. Fred Johnsen and Dr. Lars Olav Eik of Noragric
for their technical support under PANTIL and to NORAD for providing the necessary
financial support for my fieldwork. My particular appreciation is extended to Leonard
Mtama of TanCert and Jordan Gama of TOAM in Tanzania for their close
collaboration and wonderful sense of humour which made working together an
extremely refreshing and pleasurable experience. Thanks are also due to Marg
Leijdens of EPOPA for facilitating my fieldwork in many ways, to Juma Mandwanga
of Premier Cashews Industries Ltd. and his family for kindly hosting me in Kerekese
during the case study research, to my local contact, Dr. Kallunde Sibuga and others at
Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania for contributing their
knowledge and experience and to all the people involved in organic agriculture in one
way or another who volunteered their time and energy to facilitate this study. I would
like to express my profound gratitude to the late Father Yves Marché, whose tireless
work with smallholder farmers to build sustainable communities in Tanzania has been
the greatest source of inspiration in my work and studies, and whose memory
continues to significantly influence the direction of my ideas and energies. Finally, I
am forever indebted to my dear parents, Anderson Bakewell and Dr. Francine Stone,
for their selfless attentiveness to all my needs and, in the context of this research, for
meticulously proof-reading my writings and providing valuable comments.
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