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dc.contributor.authorGonçalves, Euclides
dc.coverage.spatialMozambiqueen
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-08T08:52:05Z
dc.date.available2022-04-08T08:52:05Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-19
dc.identifier.citationEuclides Gonçalves (2020) Agricultural Corridors as ‘Demonstration Fields’: Infrastructure, Fairs and Associations Along the Beira and Nacala Corridors of Mozambique, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14:2, 354-374, DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1743094en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17300
dc.description.abstractIn the past decade, the Mozambican government has been mobilizing international capital to build and renovate transport infrastructure in the central and northern areas of the country, with the aim of creating agricultural corridors. Based on field research conducted in two districts along the Beira and Nacala corridors, I examine those occasions when international capital and national agricultural policy meet smallholders in the implementation of agricultural projects. This article offers a performative analysis of the constitution of agricultural corridors. I argue that agricultural corridors emerge on those occasions when international funders and investors, national elites, local bureaucrats and smallholders overstate the success of agricultural projects and constitute what I have termed ‘demonstration fields’. Regardless of the implementation of blueprints, agricultural corridors gain spatial and temporal materiality from the performance of presenting agricultural projects as successful, such as at the unveiling of agro-related infrastructure, at agricultural fairs and on occasions involving smallholders’ associations.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectDevelopment Policyen
dc.subjectFinanceen
dc.subjectGlobalisationen
dc.subjectIndustrial Developmenten
dc.subjectParticipationen
dc.subjectPolitics and Poweren
dc.subjectRural Developmenten
dc.titleAgricultural Corridors as ‘Demonstration Fields’: Infrastructure, Fairs and Associations Along the Beira and Nacala Corridors of Mozambiqueen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.rights.holder© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Groupen
dc.identifier.externalurihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17531055.2020.1743094?scroll=top&needAccess=trueen
dc.identifier.teamRural Futuresen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17531055.2020.1743094
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-03-04
rioxxterms.funderDepartment for International Development, UK Governmenten
rioxxterms.identifier.projectAPRAen
rioxxterms.versionVoRen
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1080/17531055.2020.1743094en
rioxxterms.funder.projecte1f6d3be-457a-4f13-8b1f-6748d1402d83en


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