ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, much adjustment-related food policy has been premised on the assumption that the food pricing and marketing structures of African states have been oriented systematically toward favouring urban over rural inhabitants, and consumers over producers. The reversal of such 'urban bias' has therefore constituted a central objective of policy reform, not least in international programmes proposed to the Tanzanian government, which has often been cited as a primary example of a state promoting 'urban bias'.
