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Waves and legacies: The making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique
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- García, Angela Kronenburg (Author)
- Meyfroidt, Patrick (Author)
- Abeygunawardane, Dilini (Author)
- Sitoe, Almeida (Author)
Title
Waves and legacies: The making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique
Abstract
To understand how land-use frontiers emerge, we studied the actors driving investments in Niassa province, Mozambique. Our ethnographic research over 2017-2018 among commercial agriculture and forestry investors shows that successive waves of actors with different backgrounds, motives and business practices, arrived in Niassa to establish farms or plantations yet repeatedly failed. Waves come and go but leave sediments – legacies – that add up to gradually build the conditions for a frontier to emerge. The accumulation of these legacies has given rise to a new wave by actors from within the region, indicating that over time endogenous processes may replace externally-driven waves.
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AfricArXiv
Date
2021-02-08
Short Title
Waves and legacies
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18/02/2021, 12:03
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DOI: 10.31730/osf.io/cvs3b
type: article
Citation
García, A. K., Meyfroidt, P., Abeygunawardane, D., & Sitoe, A. (2021). Waves and legacies: The making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique. AfricArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31730/osf.io/cvs3b
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Geography / Geografia
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