The resilient agrocity metabolism: Evidence from the neighbourhoods of Dondo, Mozambique

Abstract

Following Mozambique’s conversion to globalization, the post-colonial ‘cement city’ is now the core of neo-liberalism, as a node of the global economy, where foreign donors and international market economy control national political economy, exacerbating the premise of the negation of self-sufficiency that continues to evolve resiliently at its margins. The adoption of a neo-liberal model of development during the 1990s completely bypasses the realities of Mozambican society. This paper argues that the strategy of self-production of space regarding the household/Outdoor Domestic Space, which existed previously as a resistance strategy, has become a successful strategy for survival, as the building block of the decentralized Agrocity, in the face of a global economy which totally neglects both the people and the land.