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Title: | The 'Green Zones' Agricultural Cooperatives of Nampula City: A New Phase in the Mozambican Cooperative Movement? |
Authors: | Marshall, Judith Roesch, Otto |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 240-272 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mozambique |
Subjects: | agricultural cooperatives Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637345 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the origins and current development of agricultural cooperatives of the Nampula City green zones, in Nampula Province, northern Mozambique. It's aim is to document something of the remarkable growth which these cooperatives have undergone over the past few years in the wake of Mozambique's shift from a State socialist to a market-based strategy of development. During the former centrally planned phase, when the government actively promoted the collectivization of peasant agriculture, participation in State-sponsored cooperatives by small-scale producers in the Nampula green zones was weak and involuntary. Since the shift to a market economy, however, particularly after the introduction of an IMF-sponsored structural adjustment programme in 1987, the small-scale agricultural producers have increasingly come to see cooperative organization as central to their individual household survival strategies. The paper successively treats the origins and policy context of the Nampula City agricultural cooperatives (also paying attention to the role of Northern NGOs), their organization and socioeconomic character, and current problems and prospects. It is based on data collected during four working visits to Nampula between 1988 and 1991. Notes, ref., sum. |