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Food systems change under large agricultural investments in Kenya and Mozambique
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/72116 Food systems change under large agricultural investments in Kenya and Mozambique Fioramonti, Lorenzo dkoen.work@gmail.com Korsten, Lise Dekeyser, Koen Political Sciences Political Economy UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2019. The goal of this dissertation is to explore the effects of large agricultural investments on food systems change around Nanyuki, Kenya and in the Nacala corridor, Mozambique. Specifically, the effects of these investments on land, the food supply chains, food environments, and food consumption were studied. In Africa, food systems already change against a backdrop of global food system pressures, such as the inroads of supermarkets, and local drivers, such as demographic and economic changes. The large agricultural investments likely intersect with these changes, but if the investments amplify them, and to what degree, is less known. Methodologically, a postpositivist mixed-methods approach was used for an instrumental case study design with study areas in Kenya and Mozambique. Multiple data collection techniques were used, including (un)structured interviews and a household survey, and data were analysed through inductive thematic analysis and between-groups analysis. The results show myriad effects of the investments to food systems, including to land, self-production, agricultural engagement, food distribution and food environments. Overall, the investments linked with more modern food systems that were characterised by lower self-production and higher diet diversity. This change occurred through ‘hybrid modernity’ rather than linear modernity as certain traditional dynamics strengthen alongside modernisation processes. In the end, more inclusive food governance arrangements, such as food sovereignty, can counteract some of the adverse effects of large agricultural investments. Political Sciences PhD Unrestricted 2019-11-04T09:56:41Z 2019-11-04T09:56:41Z 2020 2019 Thesis Dekeyser, K 2019, Food systems change under large agricultural investments in Kenya and Mozambique, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72116> A2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72116 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Political Sciences Political Economy UCTD Food systems change under large agricultural investments in Kenya and Mozambique |
| title | Food systems change under large agricultural investments in Kenya and Mozambique |
| title_full | Food systems change under large agricultural investments in Kenya and Mozambique |
| title_fullStr | Food systems change under large agricultural investments in Kenya and Mozambique |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food systems change under large agricultural investments in Kenya and Mozambique |
| title_short | Food systems change under large agricultural investments in Kenya and Mozambique |
| title_sort | food systems change under large agricultural investments in kenya and mozambique |
| topic | Political Sciences Political Economy UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72116 |