TY - JOUR
T1 - Is there a relationship between wartime violence and postwar agricultural development outcomes? The case of concessions and community grants in Mozambique
AU - Mcdougal, Topher
AU - Caruso, Raul
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper studies if intensity and recentness of wartime violence is related to the trajectory of postconflict agricultural development.We consider the case of Mozambique, where the government has made agricultural concessions to corporations, as well as land grants to communities. These uses may stand
in competition with one another, and we test if violence affects the awarding of concessions or land grants.
We analyze district-level, GIS-generated data on concessions, grants, and civil war events.We find wartime
violence intensity is associated with more concessions and fewer grants.We conversely find recentness
of violence is associated with fewer concessions and more grants. Embedding our empirical analysis in
a community resilience framework, we suggest the intensity of wartime violence may erode local institutions
– be they traditional governance structures, or agricultural cooperatives seeking community lands
– or limit their access to government bodies and local NGOs tasked with vetting, delimiting, and monitoring proposed concessions. Paradoxically, recentness violence may mobilize those same institutions.
AB - This paper studies if intensity and recentness of wartime violence is related to the trajectory of postconflict agricultural development.We consider the case of Mozambique, where the government has made agricultural concessions to corporations, as well as land grants to communities. These uses may stand
in competition with one another, and we test if violence affects the awarding of concessions or land grants.
We analyze district-level, GIS-generated data on concessions, grants, and civil war events.We find wartime
violence intensity is associated with more concessions and fewer grants.We conversely find recentness
of violence is associated with fewer concessions and more grants. Embedding our empirical analysis in
a community resilience framework, we suggest the intensity of wartime violence may erode local institutions
– be they traditional governance structures, or agricultural cooperatives seeking community lands
– or limit their access to government bodies and local NGOs tasked with vetting, delimiting, and monitoring proposed concessions. Paradoxically, recentness violence may mobilize those same institutions.
KW - Mozambique
KW - Post-conflict economic policy
KW - Mozambique
KW - Post-conflict economic policy
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/69962
U2 - 10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.09.001
M3 - Article
SN - 0962-6298
SP - 20
EP - 32
JO - Political Geography
JF - Political Geography
ER -