Waves and legacies: The making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique

García, Angela Kronenburg; Meyfroidt, Patrick; Abeygunawardane, Dilini; Sitoe, Almeida

doi:10.31730/osf.io/cvs3b

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“…In this context, the numerous brownfield investment opportunities that are on offer for sale or lease seem to present a market solution to the many tenure-related obstacles. Such solutions have not been spontaneous, but, borne upon the legacies of previous investment failures (Kronenburg García et al, 2021 ).…”

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Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of transnational land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa

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Actor-level data on large-scale commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. The peculiar choice of transnational investing in African land has, therefore, been subject to conjecture. Addressing this gap, we reconstructed the underlying logics of investment location choices in a Bayesian network, using firm- and actor-level interview and spatial data from 37 transnational agriculture and forestry investments across 121 sites in Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. We distinguish four investment locations across gradients of resource frontiers and agglomeration economies to derive the preferred locations of different investors with varied skillsets and market reach (i.e., track record). In contrast to newcomers, investors with extensive track records are more likely to expand the land use frontier, but they are also likely to survive the high transaction costs of the pre-commercial frontier. We highlight key comparative advantages of Southern and Eastern African frontiers and map the most probable categories of investment locations.

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Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of transnational land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa

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“…This volume will discuss the struggles and entanglements triggered by forces as diverse as the global land rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. There are thus multiple 'frontiers' at play in the drylands, interacting with each other and with local ongoing processes, some of which may have been shaped by the 'legacies' of previous 'waves' of transformation (Kronenburg García et al 2022), such as those stemming from the colonial period (see e.g. Haller 2019).…”

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