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Inverting the moral economy: the case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania

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  • M.F. Olwig
  • C. Noe
  • R. Kangalawe
  • E. Luoga

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Governments, donors and investors often promote land acquisitions for forest plantations as global climate change mitigation via carbon sequestration. Investors’ forestry thereby becomes part of a global moral economy imaginary. Using examples from Tanzania we critically examine the global moral economy’s narrative foundation, which presents trees as axiomatically ‘green’, ‘idle’ land as waste and economic investments as benefiting the relevant communities. In this way the traditional supposition of the moral economy as invoked by the economic underclass to maintain the basis of their subsistence is inverted and subverted, at a potentially serious cost to the subjects of such land acquisition.

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  • M.F. Olwig & C. Noe & R. Kangalawe & E. Luoga, 2015. "Inverting the moral economy: the case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(12), pages 2316-2336, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:36:y:2015:i:12:p:2316-2336
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1078231
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    1. Anders Hansson & Mathias Fridahl & Simon Haikola & Pius Yanda & Noah Pauline & Edmund Mabhuye, 2020. "Preconditions for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Tanzania," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 22(7), pages 6851-6875, October.
    2. Anders Hansson & Simon Haikola & Mathias Fridahl & Pius Yanda & Edmund Mabhuye & Noah Pauline, 2021. "Biochar as multi-purpose sustainable technology: experiences from projects in Tanzania," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 5182-5214, April.
    3. Justin Lusasi & Dismas Mwaseba, 2020. "Gender Inequality and Symbolic Violence in Women’s Access to Family Land in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-14, November.

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