Class, politics and dynamic accumulation processes around the Sino-Mozambican rice project in the lower Limpopo, 2005–2014

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Review of African Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/03056244.2022.2050557

A. Ganho

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study levels an international political economy lens at the development of the Sino-Mozambican rice project in the lower Limpopo, by examining how class relations shaped and were shaped by global trends, Chinese resources and Mozambican dynamic accumulation interests. The Sino-Mozambican rice project (2005–2014) is analysed as three projects benefiting different groups, with a focus on producer selection and allocation of means of production, in dialogue with the historical dynamics of agrarian accumulation and the political economy of Mozambique. The paper argues that the project has served the expansionist interests of the ruling capitalist group associated with central government circles, limiting land-based possibilities at province level. In addition, the plan to locally transform small producers into rural capitalists through ‘modern’ Chinese methods has failed to confront the historical interdependence of the commercial and so-called family sectors and the diversity of livelihood sources for the reproduction of food and labour.

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2005-2004年，中莫在林波波下游的水稻项目的阶级、政治和动态积累过程

摘要本研究通过考察全球趋势、中国资源和莫桑比克动态积累利益如何塑造和影响阶级关系，将国际政治经济学视角放在中莫在林波波河下游水稻项目的发展上。根据莫桑比克农业积累和政治经济的历史动态，将中莫水稻项目（2005-2014）分析为三个惠及不同群体的项目，重点关注生产者的选择和生产资料的分配。该论文认为，该项目符合与中央政府圈子有联系的统治资本主义集团的扩张主义利益，限制了省级的陆上可能性。此外，通过“现代”中国方法在当地将小生产者转变为农村资本家的计划未能应对商业和所谓家庭部门的历史相互依存性以及粮食和劳动力再生产的生计来源的多样性。

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Review of African Political Economy Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.