Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

The ‘green zones’ agricultural cooperatives of Nampula City: a new phase in the Mozambican cooperative movement?

1993; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03057079308708359

1465-3893

Judith Marshall, Otto Roesch,

Microfinance and Financial Inclusion

This paper examines the origins and current development of agricultural cooperatives in the Nampula City ‘green zones’, Nampula Province, northern Mozambique. The paper seeks to document something of the process by which the small‐scale agricultural producers of the Nampula green zones have come to see cooperative organisation as central to their individual household survival strategies in the context of the changed economic and political climate which Mozambique's structural adjustment programme and general shift to a market‐based strategy of development have ushered in. It is suggested that the experience of the Nampula agricultural cooperatives provides not only an instructive example of the kind of problem presently facing cooperative development in Mozambique, but also some insight into the form and direction which a renewed popularly based political project might assume in a Mozambique now embarked upon a dependent capitalist path of development.