The Rwandan government's ongoing reconfiguration of the agricultural
sector seeks to facilitate increased penetration of smallholder farming
systems by domestic and international capital, which may include some
land acquisition (‘land grabbing’) as well as contract farming
arrangements. Such contracts are arranged by the state, which sometimes
uses coercive mechanisms and interventionist strategies to encourage
agricultural investment. Activities of
international development agencies are becoming intertwined with those
of the state and foreign capital, so that a variety of actors and
objectives are starting to collaboratively change the relations between
land and labour. The global ‘land grab’ is only one aspect of broader
patterns of reconfiguration of control over land, labour and markets in
the Global South. This paper demonstrates the ways in which the state is
orienting public resources towards private interests in Rwanda.
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