Migrant workers into contract farmers: Processes of labour mobilization in colonial and contemporary Mozambique
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2017
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Cambridge University Press
Abstract
During the post-liberalization period, contract farming schemes have become a
recurrent feature of agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa. Contract
farming is not a new phenomenon in the continent but it has gained in magnitude
and significance in the past decades (Ochieng 2010; Oya 2012; Prowse 2012; Watts
1994). In some countries and sectors, it is now the predominant form of organizing
production and commercialization. In its outgrower form it replaces the kind of
exchange that would otherwise take place in open markets with an exchange of
agricultural commodities that involves an agreement prior to production
between producers and traders (or processors). The contract stipulates the conditions of production, such as the volume deliverable, the price, the provision of
inputs and technical assistance and the setting of quality standards. Various multilateral institutions, donors, governments and investors have hailed this kind of
farming as the way forward for integrating smallholder farmers into global
markets and for overcoming the crises of agricultural financing and marketing
(FAO 2012; Will 2013).
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Migrant workers, Immigrants, Contact farmers, Labour mobilization, Mozambique
Citation
Pérez Ninõ, H. (2017). Migrant workers into contract farmers: Processes of labour mobilization in colonial and contemporary Mozambique. Africa, 87(1), 79–99. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000197201600070X