Abstract
The agricultural policies aligned on the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) are coproduced with economic models. Models became hegemonic in a context of foreign aid dependency and of elite's socialization through economic modelling. Based on grey literature and observations in Mozambique, we analyze the contribution of modeling to this policy making. While officially promoting the objectives of ownership, efficiency, and evidencebased policies, modeling enables the coexistence of contradicting claims and acts. CAADP and models are an apparatus instrumentalized by political and agroindustrial elites. Their coproduction therefore enables the reproduction of economic and political strategies it claimed to suppress. Our results call for a reappraisal of the multiple appropriations of modeling and of the effects of the agricultural policies promoted.
| Translated title of the contribution | Governing agriculture through models? The case of CAADP in Mozambique |
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| Original language | French |
| Journal | CyberGeo |
| Volume | 2017 |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Agricultural development
- Modeling/modelling
- Sociology of science
- Territorial development
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
