The importance of agriculture for the overall socio-economic development of the countries of the SADCC region has been recognised and the problems in this area are now being addressed. This paper takes a general look at the relationship between social development and agricultural development in the region, focusing particularly on 1) the problems faced by the agricultural sector in Africa and 2) on agriculture and development in Tanzania. The paper argues that agricultural development is a basic pre-requisite for the raising of standards of living and quality of life in the region but has that it has not, up to the formation of SADCC, received sufficient attention in terms of individual, joint and collective action possibilities.
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