Governing agriculture through models? The case of CAADP in Mozambique

Leblond, Nelly

doi:10.4000/cybergeo.28477

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“…For example, models describing agricultural transformation in the north of Mozambique on the basis of yield gaps, profitability and surface areas, are based on assumptions that don't resist scrutiny. Such models rely, for instance, on the erroneous assumption of monocropping on land where farmers systematically associate several crops (Leblond 2017). Clearly, pioneer fronts do not necessarily entail a veritable intensification of agriculture.…”

Section: What Is a Pioneer Front?mentioning

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Water driven Palestinian agricultural frontiers: the global ramifications of transforming local irrigation

Trottier¹,

Perrier²

2018

Journal of Political Ecology

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In agricultural transformations, small scale farmer driven processes interact with globally driven processes. Donor-led or foreign investor-led irrigation development systematically interacts with local, farmer-led irrigation development. This article harnesses Kopytoff's concept of 'interstitial frontier' to study such interactions. It discusses the shape an agricultural frontier may have and its interactions with local forms of water and land tenure. It discusses the manner in which changing access to water may spur the development of agricultural pioneer fronts. It distinguishes surface water driven, groundwater driven and wastewater driven agricultural frontiers. It then explores the manner such frontiers are transforming water tenure in the West Bank. This is an important aspect of the globalization of Palestinian society. The method this article develops is applicable elsewhere. Within interstitial frontiers, investors, whether local farmers or outsiders, enroll a globally maintained scientific discourse of efficient water use to secure donor funding. Meanwhile, they try developing clientelist ties with the authorities to secure their new access to water. The impacts on neighbouring, peasant-run irrigated systems, food security, housing security and many other mechanisms that sustain a society, are important and too often neglected.

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Section: What Is a Pioneer Front?mentioning

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Water driven Palestinian agricultural frontiers: the global ramifications of transforming local irrigation

Trottier¹,

Perrier²

2018

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…To the Beduin family, however, this has constrained its freedom of movement and has lengthened the distance it needs to walk. This is typical of local populations being relegated into interstitial spaces by large land acquisitions elsewhere in the world (Chouquer, 2012;Leblond, 2017). To secure its farms, the company employs local Beduins as security guards.…”

Section: A Variety Of Land Tenurementioning

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The political role of date palm trees in the Jordan Valley: The transformation of Palestinian land and water tenure in agriculture made invisible by epistemic violence

Trottier

Leblond

Garb

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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In the West Bank, date palm trees have been sweeping over the Jordan Valley at an accelerating rate since the 2000s. The current scientific literature has depicted this transformation as sustainable development. This article proposes a method to harness social sciences in a meaningful manner within the interdisciplinary study of agricultural transformation. Focusing on appropriation rather than bundles of rights, within an exploration of water and land tenure, allows uncovering actors and mechanisms that remain undetected by the current scientific discourse. Date palms transform both land and water tenure. As seasonal labor replaces sharecroppers that lived on site, the livelihoods, housing security, and food security of those practicing family farming are compromised. Geospatial analysis allows a triangulation of the results produced by qualitative methods. Mapping and quantifying the spatial progression of Israeli and Palestinian date palm trees between 1999 and 2016 allows assessing the number of sharecroppers displaced by date palm trees during that period. This demonstrates a Valley Clearance is now occurring, akin to the Highland Clearances that took place in 18th century Scotland. The present transformation of agriculture in the Jordan Valley has clear social and political impacts. Donors, the Palestinian Authority, and Palestinian date palm agribusinesses refer to the Palestinian water law within the perspective of a two state solution. The Israeli Water Authority and Israeli settlers further a network of wastewater reuse which stands as the only reliable source of water for date palm cultivation in the foreseeable future and contributes to the development of a one state solution. Meanwhile, Palestinians practicing family farming rely on legal pluralism to secure their access to water.

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Governing agriculture through models? The case of CAADP in Mozambique

Cited by 2 publications

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Water driven Palestinian agricultural frontiers: the global ramifications of transforming local irrigation

Water driven Palestinian agricultural frontiers: the global ramifications of transforming local irrigation

The political role of date palm trees in the Jordan Valley: The transformation of Palestinian land and water tenure in agriculture made invisible by epistemic violence

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