posted on 2024-09-05, 20:56authored byLídia Cabral
This paper analyses the design and implementation of Mozambique’s National Agriculture Mechanisation Programme and wider mechanisation policy, looking at the models devised for service provision, actors involved, their motivations and expectations, and access to machinery by the small-scale ‘family sector’. The paper also discusses the role played by mechanisation in processes of agrarian change and social differentiation in rural Mozambique and, specifically, its part in efforts by the state to nurture a modern agribusiness entrepreneur.
Funding
Department for International Development, UK Government
History
Publisher
APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
Citation
Lídia Cabral (2019) Zinc Roof or Mango Tree? Tractors, Modernisation, and Agrarian Transformation in Mozambique APRA Working paper 19, Future Agricultures Consortium.