ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an investigation of the town of Biharamulo and four surrounding villages in Kagera Region in north-western Tanzania. It describes the nature of village economies from a household perspective, and investigates the kinds of links village households have with the town of Biharamulo. The chapter explains the degree of economic differentiation between households within the villages. It analyzes the types of urban and rural households that have adopted successful survival and accumulation strategies, and those which might be poor or vulnerable to poverty. A few households had adopted specialized agricultural production techniques and had created marketing niches in Biharamulo. Households with little land supplemented household income by selling labour and these households form an extremely vulnerable category. Households producing and marketing a combination of crops and locally produced alcohol comprised 39 per cent of all village households.
