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

dc.creatorOlwig, M. F.
dc.creatorNoe, C.
dc.creatorKangalawe, R.
dc.creatorLuoga, E.
dc.date2017-06-24T14:38:07Z
dc.date2017-06-24T14:38:07Z
dc.date2015
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-25T08:50:45Z
dc.date.available2022-10-25T08:50:45Z
dc.descriptionThird World Quarterly, 2015 Vol. 36, No. 12, 2316–2336
dc.descriptionGovernments, 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 criti- cally 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.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/1724
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/90600
dc.languageen
dc.publisherThird World Quarterly
dc.subjectLand acquisitions
dc.subjectMoral economy
dc.subjectCarbon forestry
dc.subjectIdle land
dc.subjectSustainable investments
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.titleInverting the moral economy: The case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania
dc.typeArticle

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