MyJournals Home  

RSS FeedsIJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 723: `All Weather Friends`: How China Transformed Zimbabwe`s Tobacco Sector (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)

 
 

22 january 2020 15:01:21

 
IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 723: `All Weather Friends`: How China Transformed Zimbabwe`s Tobacco Sector (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
 


Recent research documents the globalization strategy of the Chinese tobacco industry since the early 2000s and risks posed to global health. There are limited analyses to date of how this strategy is playing out in specific countries. This paper analyses the expansion of the China National Tobacco Company (CNTC) in Zimbabwe, the largest producer of tobacco leaf globally, since the early 2000s, through document analysis. It applies a political economy framework—identifying material, ideational and institutional forces—to demonstrate how CNTC capitalized on the unique features of China-Africa development cooperation to pursue its expansion goals, which threaten global public health efforts to reduce tobacco supply. In a context of economic crisis, CNTC offered substantial resources to revive Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry, promoting a shift to contract farming of its preferred leaf. It benefited from perceptions of state friendship, which it fostered through corporate social responsibility initiatives. Through ties with the Chinese embassy and economic actors, CNTC embedded its interests in development institutions. While contributing to improved foreign exchange earnings and some farmers’ livelihoods, CNTC’s expansion has increased the dependence on China as a development partner and tobacco as a crop, benefitting its “go global” strategy, while contributing to public health and environmental challenges locally and globally. The expansion of the Chinese tobacco industry interests in Zimbabwe offers lessons for global tobacco control and efforts to support alternatives to tobacco growing.


 
168 viewsCategory: Medicine, Pathology, Toxicology
 
IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 716: Price Competition and Product Differentiation Based on the Subjective and Social Effect of Consumers` Environmental Awareness (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 717: Reducing Sedentary Time among Older Adults in Assisted Living: Perceptions, Barriers, and Motivators (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
 
 
blog comments powered by Disqus


MyJournals.org
The latest issues of all your favorite science journals on one page

Username:
Password:

Register | Retrieve

Search:

Toxicology


Copyright © 2008 - 2024 Indigonet Services B.V.. Contact: Tim Hulsen. Read here our privacy notice.
Other websites of Indigonet Services B.V.: Nieuws Vacatures News Tweets Nachrichten