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SUMMARY:From Hidden Dissent to Open Renegotiation and Contestation: Local 
 Actors Interacting with Agrarian Modernisation in Rural Rwanda - An Ansoms
 \, Catholic University of Leuven
DTSTART:20170206T170000Z
DTEND:20170206T183000Z
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:Over the last ten years\, the Rwandan government has rolled ou
 t an ambitious 'green revolution' policy package aimed at modernising and 
 professionalising its rural economy. The reorganisation of rural space and
  production - in order to foster economic growth – has been met with sce
 pticism and aversion by large groups of subsistence farmers. However\, whe
 reas initially dissent was repressed and almost exclusively expressed bene
 ath the surface\; the room for manoeuvre for open contestation has signifi
 cantly increased over the last years. The government itself acknowledges h
 ow citizen satisfaction with agrarian policies is too low. The openness fo
 r discussion on 'defaults' in the system seems to confirm the RPF's claim 
 of being a learning government. And interestingly\, civil society organisa
 tions and local media are allowed to play an important role in giving voic
 e to such open contestation. However\, it remains to be seen whether negot
 iations evolve around certain 'deficiencies in the system'\, or whether th
 ese may culminate in broader contestation around the systemic defaults emb
 edded within a top-down imposed agrarian transformation.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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