Smallholder views on Chinese agricultural investments in Mozambique and Tanzania in the context of VGGTS

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dc.contributor.authorPointer, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorSulle, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorNtauazi, Clemente
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-13T12:00:33Z
dc.date.available2023-04-13T12:00:33Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractBased on a case study in each country, this study documents the views of Mozambican and Tanzanian smallholders regarding Chinese agricultural investments and the extent to which investors abide by their legitimate land tenure rights as defined by the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Forests and Fisheries in the Context of National Food Security (VGGTs). The VGGTs offer guidelines to government on how to protect the land tenure of rural communities when land is being acquired for large-scale land investments. The study also assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on smallholders. Due to COVID-19, instead of fieldwork, we conducted telephone interviews with 20 smallholders in Mozambique and 35 in Tanzania. The Mozambican case showed that even when land set aside for investors was not in dispute, smallholders still had unmet expectations, especially regarding investors’ corporate social responsibility activities. In the Tanzanian case, even though the land leased by the Chinese investor had been designated as general land, it had laid fallow for a long period, and smallholders had moved back onto the land, only to be displaced in 2017.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPointer, R. et al. (2023). Smallholder views on Chinese agricultural investments in Mozambique and Tanzania in the context of VGGTS. Sustainability, 15(2), 1220. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021220en_US
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su15021220
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/8784
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.subjectLand tenureen_US
dc.subjectInvestmenten_US
dc.subjectMozambiqueen_US
dc.subjectFarmingen_US
dc.titleSmallholder views on Chinese agricultural investments in Mozambique and Tanzania in the context of VGGTSen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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