The politics of agrofuels and mega-land and water deals: insights from the ProCana case, Mozambique
By Saturnino M. Borras Jr., D. Fig, S. Suárez. 2011
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This paper examines the politics of large-scale commercial biofuels production and mega-land–water deals, with special reference to the dynamics of changes in land/water use and property rights and how these impact on the lives and livelihoods of the socio-economically marginalised rural sectors in the countryside. The main argument is that the assumption about existing, available marginal lands is fundamentally flawed. It is demonstrated by examining the ProCana sugar cane ethanol plantation in Gaza province in Mozambique.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology, Pollution
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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- P. Peters
- J. Franco
- Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
- L. Mehta
- Gert Jan Veldwisch
- R. Santpoort
- Peter Messerli
- Les Levidow
In Molecular Biology
In Pollution
Citations in the corpus
- Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “The same authors conclude that ‘current procedures lock affected people into unfavourable negotiation and development pathways’ (Vermuelen and Cotula 2010, 913; cf. Borras et al. 2011 on ProCana in Mozambique).”
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources (2012, background): “This is the case of Procana sugar cane plantation in Mozambique which is a 30,000 ha plot adjacent to Massingir dam to ensure water supply for the plantation (van der Zaag et al., 2010; Borras et al., 2011), for example.”
- Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis (2012, background): “For example, most of the people who were supposed to be flushed out of the 30,000-hectare Procana sugarcane plantation in Mozambique were relocated to nearby land (Borras et al. 2011).”