Mondialisation, Clusterisation et recyclage colonial

• Main Author: Bernard Calas
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique 2013-12-01
• Series: EchoGéo
• Subjects: Kenya; agri-business; productive cluster; economic geography
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/13586

What are the geographical effects in Africa of global economic integration? At a small scale, the Lake Naivasha (Kenya) case study shows that colonial exploitation and land use, post-colonial conversions, designation by globalized entrepreneurs of local assets as valuable resources converge to select spaces and convert them in a horticultural cluster. It is is made of 60 production units and up-stream and down streams activities, partly financed by alien investments. However, it is also united by a “small world” which merges localized and globalized actors. An emerging “territorrialisation” process is increasing this melting process. But colonial memory restricts these trends towards global distinction.