Commentators: Paula Duarte Lopes (CES/FEUC);  Boaventura Monjane (PLAAS/UWC)


Overview

The social, religious, political and economic centrality of rice in West Africa has been reaffirmed by several farmers and authors. Colonialism, global capitalism and global warming have been limiting the regional viability of mangrove rice farming – the most important means for producing the most consumed food in the region. Despite major evidence of the disintegration of mangrove rice livelihoods elsewhere, from 2013 to 2019 in southern Guinea-Bissau, networks of knowledge, labour and reciprocity have been crucial to the attempts of rehabilitating rice paddies. Concepts like “refugia” and “root system” are used to analyse interfaces between the centres of rice production and sites of intermittent rice production. In the context of the struggle for rice reproduction, continuities between colonialism and climate change are discussed for the specific context of mangrove rice.

This seminar is part of the Political Ecology Reading Group series 2020-21 of the Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade (CES). If you wish to receive a copy of this paper, please contact ecosoc@ces.uc.pt

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