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Economic Geographies of Future-Making along a Development Corridor: Effects of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) on agro-industrial Global Value Chains
Development corridors are currently spreading all over the Global South and especially over the African continent. Fuelled by the global commodities boom and its culmination in the global food and finance crisis in 2007/08, African development corridors have been popularly heralded as a high road to development. Alluring especially with a rapid transformation of agricultural landscapes, many of them are since seen as territorial tool for rapid agro-industrial modernization and globalization. This thesis analyses and explains the mechanisms, processes, and effects behind the mobilization of the perhaps most prominent corridor in Africa with such agro-industrial focus: Namely, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). Bringing together literature on future-making and economic geography, the thesis contributes a critical realist account on how a narrow vision of modernization and globalization has underpinned the making of the spatial imaginary SAGCOT. This spatial imaginary emptied the future from its (viable) alternatives and claimed space for its ostensibly friction-free implementation in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands. Using empirical and mainly qualitative case study work along Tanzania’s agro-industrial value chain, the thesis traces SAGCOT’s materialization and analyses and explains the uneven economic geographies – and frictions – created. Focussing on the supply side of agro-industrial chains, it shows how SAGCOT created the possibility for a fertilizer multinational to integrate Tanzanian farmers into its global production network and explains how this enabled the exertion of unprecedented types of power between “firm and farm”. Focussing on the buying side of agro-industrial chains, the thesis further addresses how the financialization of farmland along the corridor, constituted fragile and eventually rather unsustainable chain linkages between smallholder farmers and large-scale commercial farms. In total, the three thesis articles highlight why a simultaneous making and unmaking of ...
Economic Geographies of Future-Making along a Development Corridor: Effects of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) on agro-industrial Global Value Chains
Development corridors are currently spreading all over the Global South and especially over the African continent. Fuelled by the global commodities boom and its culmination in the global food and finance crisis in 2007/08, African development corridors have been popularly heralded as a high road to development. Alluring especially with a rapid transformation of agricultural landscapes, many of them are since seen as territorial tool for rapid agro-industrial modernization and globalization. This thesis analyses and explains the mechanisms, processes, and effects behind the mobilization of the perhaps most prominent corridor in Africa with such agro-industrial focus: Namely, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). Bringing together literature on future-making and economic geography, the thesis contributes a critical realist account on how a narrow vision of modernization and globalization has underpinned the making of the spatial imaginary SAGCOT. This spatial imaginary emptied the future from its (viable) alternatives and claimed space for its ostensibly friction-free implementation in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands. Using empirical and mainly qualitative case study work along Tanzania’s agro-industrial value chain, the thesis traces SAGCOT’s materialization and analyses and explains the uneven economic geographies – and frictions – created. Focussing on the supply side of agro-industrial chains, it shows how SAGCOT created the possibility for a fertilizer multinational to integrate Tanzanian farmers into its global production network and explains how this enabled the exertion of unprecedented types of power between “firm and farm”. Focussing on the buying side of agro-industrial chains, the thesis further addresses how the financialization of farmland along the corridor, constituted fragile and eventually rather unsustainable chain linkages between smallholder farmers and large-scale commercial farms. In total, the three thesis articles highlight why a simultaneous making and unmaking of ...
Economic Geographies of Future-Making along a Development Corridor: Effects of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) on agro-industrial Global Value Chains
Tups, Gideon (Autor:in)
28.01.2023
Tups, Gideon orcid:0000-0003-4362-4772 (2023). Economic Geographies of Future-Making along a Development Corridor: Effects of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) on agro-industrial Global Value Chains. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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