THE BRAZILIAN PRESENCE IN MOZAMBICAN AGRICULTURE AND THE PARADIGMS OF THE AGRARIAN MODEL IN QUESTION: A GEOGRAPHIC LOOK AT PROSAVANA

Abstract

This article analyzes ProSAVANA's territorialization process and ProSAVANA's socio-territorial developments in the Nacala Corridor. From the analysis made, it is understood that ProSAVANA is a program that engenders the monopolization of the territory by capital for the production of commodities of interest to the global market. The interest in fact is to guarantee an expanded accumulation of capital on a global scale from the Nacala Corridor, using community territories and their people in the production process. Behind the idea of modernity and the productivist and developmentalist discourse, ProSAVANA hides its rentier, expropriating, exploiting, exclusionary nature, predator of natural resources among other barbarism in the countryside. The concentration of land, wealth and income in the hands of small groups, are among the negative impacts of the model proposed by ProSAVANA for the modernization of agriculture in the Nacala Corridor. Socio-environmental conflicts are inevitable where agribusiness is territorialized in the countryside. ProSAVANA is also a threat to the peasant way of farming that prevails in this region. It also threatens the food sovereignty of local people and, consequently, food and nutritional security. The struggles and resistance of peasants and social movements against their effective implementation in the Nacala Corridor are legitimate, above all, looking at the uneven, contradictory and perverse character of agribusiness through which it is territorialized in the countryside.