Transformations of Rural Spaces in Mozambique

Herausgeber: Navarra, Cecilia; Rodrigues, Cristina Udelsmann; Nordic Africa Institute

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of transformations taking place in rural Mozambique andtheir implications on inequalities and livelihoods.

Produktdetails

• Africa Now
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781786999252
• ISBN-10: 1786999250
• Artikelnr.: 59994172

Autorenporträt

Cecilia Navarra has a PhD in Economics from the University of Turin where she has also been a Teaching Assistant in Microeconomics and Lecturer in Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Political Sciences. She has been a Research Fellow at the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE, Trento, Italy), at the Department of Economics of the University of Turin, and then a Post-doc Fellow at the Centre of Research in the Economics of Development (CRED) at University of Namur (Belgium). She has also been a Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues is a Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, focussing on urban transformation, youth, rural-urban migration, urban strategies, borders, mining, and local development. The geographical areas of her work are the lusophone African countries - Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe - where she has been conducting research for over 15 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Associations and Civil Society in Rural Mozambique
2. Extractive Activities and their Impact on Rural Livelihoods and Local
Economies
3. Agriculture and Smallholder Production
4. Agriculture and Land Acquisitions
5. Relations Between the State and Rural Communities
6. The Environment, Urbanization and Use of Natural Resources in the
Economy