Article ID: CBB231917962

Turning the Tree Plantations of Slavery into Agroforests for Everyman: A Piece of Landscape History from Pemba Island, Zanzibar (2019)

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This essay argues that agroforestry is deeply embedded in the history of tropical agriculture in the Indian Ocean basin. Drawing on the example of Pemba Island, part of the Zanzibar Archipelago just off the coast of Tanzania, the essay studies a transitionary phase in the island's agricultural history when plantations of clove trees gave way to more diverse small-scale agricultural systems. Beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, former slaves began a landscape overhaul that combined a suite of Asian, African, and American plants with methods and knowledge of agroforestry.

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Authors & Contributors
Sunseri, Thaddeus
Alpers, Edward A.
Carney, Judith
Denham, Tim
Huijzendveld, Frans D.
Martin, Meredith
Journals
Environment and History
Agricultural History
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Economic History Review
Environmental History
History and Technology
Publishers
University of Pennsylvania Press
Boydell & Brewer
University of Arizona Press
University of New Mexico Press
Yale University Press
Concepts
Agriculture
Forests and forestry
Environmental history
Tropical agriculture
Colonialism
Landscape; landscapes
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Africa
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
Caribbean
Southeast Asia
Indian Ocean
Atlantic world
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