Large investments, small farmers

A financialisation perspective on value chains in a development corridor

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21540937
AutoresGideon Tups (0000-0003-4362-4772, University of Cologne), Gideon Hartmann (University of Cologne, autor correspondente), Innocent Mwaka (University of Cologne), Peter Dannenberg (0000-0002-4159-6635, University of Cologne)
Ano2021
Volume38
Fascículo1
Páginas122-138
Data de publicação2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDevelopment Southern Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0376-835X • E-ISSN: 1470-3637
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0376835x.2020.1799758
OpenAlexW3049151762
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas34

Development corridors have recently gained momentum as territorial tools to attract flows of global capital into agricultural value chains. As this includes the controversial blending of public with private funding for investments into farmland, the integration of smallholders in large-scale operations is increasingly promoted as legitimatory practice. With this article, we discuss the role of finance in shaping such value chain arrangements. Using a spatially sensible financialisation perspective, we present two investment cases that have touched ground as reaction to the promotion of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). We assess how finance unfolded along territorial (corridor region and investment origin) and relational (investment chain and value chain) spatialities, to scrutinise the tensions and fragile outcomes that were co-constituted by mixed financial and moral investment imperatives. This helps to understand whether, why, and with what consequences smallholders can benefit from corridor-related investments

Agriculture · Business · Economics · Political science · Supply chain · Tanzania · Value chain · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political Economy and Marxism · Finance · Marketing