The White Gold: The Role of Government and State in Rehabilitating the Sugar Industry in Mozambique

Buur, Lars; Tembe, Carlota Mondlane; Baloi, Obede

doi:10.1080/00220388.2011.635200

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“…The revival of the sugar industry — which for the most part involved South African capital from the mid‐1990s to 2000, together with the ruling Frelimo party — was the first major large‐scale FDI investment after the civil war to be supported by state industrial policy and linked to a dedicated strategy (Buur et al., ). As the sector rapidly became a flagship investment that the government used as a showcase to lure other investors, with its focus on health, education, skills training and job creation — all issues of social discipline — the sugar sector retained considerable socio‐political value, despite its relatively low economic worth.…”

Section: Complex Security Assemblages In the Sugar Sectormentioning

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‘No Smoke without Fire’: Citizenship and Securing Economic Enclaves in Mozambique

Buur¹,

Sumich

2019

Development and Change

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This article explores the complicated interrelationship between economic enclaves, their associated security practices and the formation of national citizens in Mozambique. From the colonial era of company rule to the large‐scale foreign direct investments of the present day, investors have feared the destructive fires of rampant ‘mobs’, unruly workers and the potentially rebellious populace more generally. Signs of smoke point to trouble for investors, who can draw on complex security arrangements, including corporate social responsibility programmes, unions, private security companies, community leaders, state police and specialized state and rapid response units with the latest communications and transport technologies, to try to protect their investments from labour unrest and political demands. Through a variety of ethnographic materials on mega‐investments in the sugar industry over the last two decades, the article explores the centrality of complex security arrangements to strategies of governance that use such arrangements in an attempt to produce disciplined national subjects.

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Section: Complex Security Assemblages In the Sugar Sectormentioning

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‘No Smoke without Fire’: Citizenship and Securing Economic Enclaves in Mozambique

Buur¹,

Sumich

2019

Development and Change

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“…There has been long-standing support for the sugar sector, which, following the end of the civil war in the mid-1990s, was targeted for rehabilitation and benefited from significant investment from then on. This rebirth of the sugar industry is widely acclaimed as a success, with four out of the former six estates rehabilitated and employment in the sector reaching 40,000 jobs (Buur et al 2012), making the sector the second largest employer after the government.…”

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A review of social issues for biofuels investment in Mozambique

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Henley²,

Tembe³

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“…Despite this conclusion, some sector specific studies have found the Mozambican state to have intervened successfully in promoting private sector development. In the sugar industry for example government, state and party actors formed a 'mediating bureaucracy' which cooperated with foreign and domestic capital to rehabilitate sugar plantations and processing factories (Buur et al, 2012a).…”

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Jobs, Votes and Legitimacy: The Political Economy of the Mozambican Cashew Processing Industry's Revival

Boys

2013

Forum for Development Studies

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This article seeks to explain the revival of the Mozambican cashew processing industry after it was virtually wiped out by liberalisation policies at the turn of the millennium. Over the last decade state, private and external actors have cooperated to rehabilitate cashew processing with a concerted industrial policy and rents generated by protection. It is argued that such rent creation is a political process and that theories of 'good governance' and 'developmental neopatrimonialism' are unable to explain political support to the cashew sector in Mozambique. The 'developmental state' literature is a more useful guide not only to how the industry was rehabilitated, but also to where the political 'will to develop' originated in other contexts. Following from this discussion, it is argued that in Mozambique an elite ideology of nationalism, modernisation and anti-imperialism paved the way for protection of the cashew industry, while more active support was a result of more immediate concerns around finely balanced elections, inadequate employment generation in the broader economy and the faltering legitimacy of the ruling party.

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The White Gold: The Role of Government and State in Rehabilitating the Sugar Industry in Mozambique

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

‘No Smoke without Fire’: Citizenship and Securing Economic Enclaves in Mozambique

‘No Smoke without Fire’: Citizenship and Securing Economic Enclaves in Mozambique

A review of social issues for biofuels investment in Mozambique

Jobs, Votes and Legitimacy: The Political Economy of the Mozambican Cashew Processing Industry's Revival

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