RSS Cientifico geral Fragmented livelihoods:: a reflection on why few peasants living in poverty join an organization in Niassa (Mozambique)

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This article examines the reasons why peasants living in poverty are unlikelyto form or join an organization defending their rights and interests. The study is based onethnographically inspired fieldwork in the Niassa province, northern Mozambique, and takespeasants’ accounts of their livelihoods as the point of departure. The livelihood analysis isplaced within a historical and structural process. The article suggests that four dimensions offragmentation of peasants’ livelihoods hamper the conditions for collective organizations.Firstly, every peasant household is, at any given point in time, engaged in a number of differentlivelihood activities to ensure its production and reproduction. Secondly, the composition ofthese activities varies between households. Thirdly, the activities are constantly changing.Fourthly, there is socio-economic differentiation among peasant households. These fourdimensions make it difficult to identify central and enduring interests and conflicts peasantsare engaged in that could be the foundation for their collective organization.​

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This article examines the reasons why peasants living in poverty are unlikelyto form or join an organization defending their rights and interests. The study is based onethnographically inspired fieldwork in the Niassa province, northern Mozambique, and takespeasants’ accounts of their livelihoods as the point of departure. The livelihood analysis isplaced within a historical and structural process. The article suggests that four dimensions offragmentation of peasants’ livelihoods hamper the conditions for collective organizations.Firstly, every peasant household is, at any given point in time, engaged in a number of differentlivelihood activities to ensure its production and reproduction. Secondly, the composition ofthese activities varies between households. Thirdly, the activities are constantly changing.Fourthly, there is socio-economic differentiation among peasant households. These fourdimensions make it difficult to identify central and enduring interests and conflicts peasantsare engaged in that could be the foundation for their collective organization.

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