Changing agro-food systems: The impact of big agro-investors on food rights: Case studies in Mozambique and Zambia
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Date
2016
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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This book presents case studies that offer some insights into
the rapid process of change underway in African agro-food
systems, and in Southern Africa in particular, within the
context of land-based and agricultural investments. These
testimonials were gathered as part of exploratory research
aimed at investigating how increasing levels of investment
are restructuring agro-food systems and the implications
of these changes on how people produce and access food.
Therefore, we do not claim to present conclusive evidence
of the impact of agri-business on local agro-food systems
in the region, but rather, we argue that increasing levels of
land-based and agricultural investments in Mozambique
and Zambia have led to the reconfiguring of the input
supply framework, the reshaping of local farming systems
and the restructuring of market infrastructure – what we
characterise as agro-food systems. The increasing levels of
investment are affecting different people in different ways.
The case studies presented in this book show the wider
impact of these investments on rural livelihoods, household
food security and local food environments.
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Agro-food systems, Agro-investors, Mozambique, Zambia, Land-based investments
Citation
Joala, R. et al. (2016). Changing agro-food systems: The impact of big agro-investors on food rights: Case studies in Mozambique and Zambia. Cape Town: Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) University of the Western Cape.