La sociologie rurale au Maroc pendant les cinquante dernières années : évolution des thèmes de recherche

Nicolas, Georges

doi:10.3406/tiers.1961.1306

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“…Moreover, so far it is smallholder/family agriculture not large-scale/capitalistic agriculture which supplies cheap bread, an unchanged crucial component for social stability. An extinction of smallholder/family agriculture would therefore become another example of the ‘second contradiction of capitalism’ (O’Connor, 1988); where the expansion of capitalism destroys the socio-ecological basis on which it depends.…”

Section: Reconversion: the ‘Modernisation’ Of Smallholder/family Agri...mentioning

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“…Indeed, Morocco's agricultural policies tend to result in a collusion of interests: this collusion has been particularly evident since the SAP in the 1980s that marginalised universities and scholarly researchers at the expense of consulting companies (Akesbi, 2014) 7 . Beforehand, the emergence of rural sociology in Morocco had been linked to the colonial period and, thereafter, rural sociology and the meticulous study of the rural context was put into the service of the newly independent nation (Nicolas, 1961;Rachik and Bourqia, 2011;Zahi, 2014). Yet, under public-private partnerships, and further reflective of a process of neoliberal bureaucratisation (Hibou, 2012), consulting companies have become 'the new planner of Morocco's economy' (El Fassi, 2010: 57).…”

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Endless modernisation: Power and knowledge in the Green Morocco Plan

Mathez

Loftus

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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In 2008, in the aftermath of the World Food Crisis and in a context of an unfolding New Green Revolution for Africa, Morocco launched the Green Morocco Plan to ‘modernise’ its agricultural sector, thereby making the latter the main driver for economic growth and for the alleviation of rural poverty. Yet, the technicist-productivist rationale of the Green Morocco Plan, characteristic of New Green Revolution modernisation schemes, renders any positive socio-ecological outcome unlikely. Hence, recent studies of the Green Morocco Plan have focused on its impacts on food security, inequality and environment. However, how the Green Morocco Plan's rationale is (re)produced within a given set of socio-ecological, material relations has to date attracted relatively little attention. This study, therefore, explores the power-knowledge dynamics of the modernisation discourse within the Green Morocco Plan as a driver of socio-ecological change. Bringing together insights from political ecology, critical development and agri-food studies, we show how the entangled set of ideological, material, political and technical processes embodied within the Green Morocco Plan favours a reductionist view of agricultural development as increasing yields and profits. In so doing, such a view perpetuates efforts to ‘modernise’ smallholder/family farming.

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Section: Reconversion: the ‘Modernisation’ Of Smallholder/family Agri...mentioning

confidence: 99%