Abstract

BUSSOTTI, Luca. Agricultural policies and land grabbing in independent Mozambique. Resistances, social movements, role of the state. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos [online]. 2020, n.40, pp.37-62.  Epub Mar 14, 2022. ISSN 1645-3794.  https://doi.org/10.4000/cea.5243.

After having analysed the essence of agricultural policies adopted in Mozambique since independence (1975), this research tries to understand how new forms of resistance by rural communities developed from the mid-2000s. Such forms of resistance often led to the success of the incipient Mozambican rural social movements, also thanks to the action of national associations that have been supporting local communities in their struggles against land grabbing. The role of the government, both at the central and at the decentralized level, including the traditional authorities, revealed all its limits, becoming a mere executor and mediator of the willing of great foreign groups which aimed at catching hold of Mozambican fertile lands.

Keywords : local communities; government; foreign investors; struggles.

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