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The fluid nature of water grabbing: the on-going contestation of water distribution between peasants and agribusinesses in Nduruma, Tanzania

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dc.creator de Bont, Chris
dc.creator Veldwisch, Gert Jan
dc.creator Komakech, Hans C.
dc.creator Vos, Jeroen
dc.date 2020-03-20T09:48:40Z
dc.date 2020-03-20T09:48:40Z
dc.date 2015-08-20
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-25T09:24:49Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-25T09:24:49Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9644-5
dc.identifier https://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/20.500.12479/660
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/95796
dc.description This research article published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2015
dc.description This article contributes to the contemporary debate on land and water grabbing through a detailed, qualitative case study of horticultural agribusinesses which have settled in Tanzania, disrupting patterns of land and water use. In this paper we analyse how capitalist settler farms and their upstream and downstream peasant neighbours along the Nduruma river, Tanzania, expand and defend their water use. The paper is based on 3 months of qualitative field work in Tanzania. We use the echelons of rights analysis framework combined with the concept of institutional bricolage to show how this contestation takes place over the full spectrum of actual abstractions, governance and discourses. We emphasise the role different (inter)national development narratives play in shaping day-to-day contestations over water shares and rule-making. Ultimately, we emphasise that water grabbing is not a one-time event, but rather an on-going struggle over different water resources. In addition, we show how a perceived beneficial development of agribusinesses switching to groundwater allows them to avoid peasant-controlled institutions, avoiding further negotiation between the different actors and improving their image among neighbouring communities. This development illustrates how complex and obscured processes of water re-allocation can be without becoming illegal per se.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
dc.subject Foreign direct investment
dc.subject Institutional bricolage
dc.subject Echelons of rights analysis
dc.subject Smallholder irrigation
dc.subject Water grabbing
dc.title The fluid nature of water grabbing: the on-going contestation of water distribution between peasants and agribusinesses in Nduruma, Tanzania
dc.type Article


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