Class dynamics in contract farming: the case of tobacco production in Mozambique

Helena Pérez Niño

Third World Quarterly, 2016, vol. 37, issue 10, 1787-1808

Abstract: This paper examines the class relations emerging in a contract farming scheme in Mozambique. Debates in the literature about contract farming characterise this market arrangement as leading to farmers losing control over production at the hands of capital. By discussing both the drivers and impacts of changes in the division of property and labour, this paper reveals a complex class structure in which the pressure of merchant capital on farmers is internalized within households and transferred onto workers and sharecroppers. This challenges the pertinence of conventional policy that prescribes empowering contract farmers without considering their varied class positions and interests.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1180956

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