The Green Belt Initiative, Politics and Sugar Production in Malawi
The Green Belt Initiative, Politics and Sugar Production in Malawi
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DOI：
10.1080/03057070.2016.1211401
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发表时间：
2017-06-01
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0.5
通讯作者：
Chinsinga, Blessings
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作者：
Chinsinga, Blessings
本文在绿化带倡议(GBI)的框架内，批判性地研究了马拉维扩大甘蔗种植的潜在政治经济动态。这是在土地改革工作长期陷入立法僵局的背景下推动的，主要针对的是属于小农的土地。白皮书辩称，GBI概念文件中概述的就业、技术转让和基础设施发展的承诺，以及OutProducer甘蔗项目中所吹捧的承诺，仍然是口头上的。投资地点的社区正经历着社会关系的不稳定，这是由与精英联盟的持续暴力对抗引发的。企业和精英利益集团已经联合起来，继续推进GBI试验，尽管小农的福利正在受到损害，尽管通过合法和非法律手段的阻力越来越大。必须将这种糖的政治经济与马拉维的精英政治联系起来理解，这种模式在历届政权中一直存在。
This paper critically examines underlying political economy dynamics of the expansion of sugar cultivation in Malawi within the framework of the Green Belt Initiative (GBI). This is being promoted in the context of a protracted legislative impasse in land reform efforts, targeting primarily land that belongs to smallholder farmers. The paper argues that the promises of employment, technology transfer and infrastructure development, as outlined in the GBI concept paper and touted in the outgrower sugar cane project, remain rhetorical. Communities in the investment sites are experiencing a destabilisation of social relations, precipitated by persistent violent confrontations with a coalition of elites. Corporate and elite interests have coalesced to press on with the GBI experiment, even though the welfare of smallholders is being undermined, and despite the growing resistance through both legal and extra-legal means. This political economy of sugar must be understood in relation to Malawi's elite politics, a pattern that has persisted across successive regimes.