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The Peanut Plan: Britain's Groundnut Scheme and the Postwar Gamble to Farm Tanganyika by Machine
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In a London office in the late 1940s, a map of East Africa was spread across a table and treated as a promise.
Britain had won the war but was still rationing cooking fat. Officials believed they had a simple answer. Clear millions of acres of Tanganyikan bush, plant groundnuts by machine, and ship the oil home. The plan grew to 3.21 million acres, divided into 107 mechanical units, and its confidence rested on one idea: a state that could organise a war could surely organise a harvest.
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