ABSTRACT In the past decade, the Mozambican government has been mobilizing international capital to build and renovate transport infrastructure in the central and northern areas of the country, with the aim of creating agricultural corridors. Based on field research conducted in two districts along the Beira and Nacala corridors, I examine those occasions when international capital and national agricultural policy meet smallholders in the implementation of agricultural projects. This article offers a performative analysis of the constitution of agricultural corridors. I argue that agricultural corridors emerge on those occasions when international funders and investors, national elites, local bureaucrats and smallholders overstate the success of agricultural projects and constitute what I have termed ‘demonstration fields’. Regardless of the implementation of blueprints, agricultural corridors gain spatial and temporal materiality from the performance of presenting agricultural projects as successful, such as at the unveiling of agro-related infrastructure, at agricultural fairs and on occasions involving smallholders’ associations.

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农业走廊作为“示范场”：莫桑比克贝拉和纳卡拉走廊沿线的基础设施，集市和协会

摘要在过去的十年中，莫桑比克政府一直在动员国际资本在该国中部和北部地区建设和翻新运输基础设施，以期建立农业走廊。根据在贝拉和纳卡拉走廊沿线两个地区进行的实地研究，我考察了国际资本和国家农业政策在实施农业项目时遇到小农的情况。本文对农业走廊的构成进行了性能分析。我认为，在国际资助者和投资者，国家精英，地方官僚和小农户夸大农业项目的成功并构成我所谓的“示范领域”的情况下，出现了农业走廊。