This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African ‘land rush’, providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted. The research will be a critical resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers as it provides detailed, long-term assessments of a broad range of national contexts. In addition to the specific questions of land and investment, this book sheds light on the broader international political economy of development in different African countries.
Arvustused
The transnational land rush in Africa: a decade after the spike is a good collection of works on the recent transnational land rush in Africa, a decade after the 2007/2008 spike in commodity prices. the book is an engaging collection with thought-provoking perspectives on the sources, drivers, resistance and ramifications of the transnational land rush in Africa a decade after the 2007/2008 spike. (Abdul-Salam Ibrahim, Review of African Political Economy, July 23, 2021)
Foreword.
Chapter
1. IPE and the African Land Rush: Trends, Scale,
Narratives and Contestations.- Part I: The Land-Development Nexus: Grand
Discourses, Social Injustice and Contestations.
Chapter
2. Agri-Business
Development in Cameroon: Colonial Legacies and Recent Tensions.
Chapter
3.
The Faltering Land Rush and the Limits to Extractive Capitalism in Senegal.-
Chapter
4. The Modernization of Land Tenure in South Sudan and its Effects
on Communal Land Rights.
Chapter
5. Behind Accumulation and Dispossession:
State and Large-Scale Agricultural Land Investments in Nigeria.- Part II.
Informality and New Customary Land Tenure Landscapes.
Chapter
6. The Devil
Has Many Faces: Community Forestry and How it Contributes to the Land Rush in
Liberia.
Chapter
7. Agro-industrial Mega Land Deals in Sierra Leone: Beyond
the Rhetorics of Beneficiation, Employment and Economic Development. -Part
III. Formalization, Domestic Agency and Legacies of Legal Pluralism.
Chapter
8. The Power ofPolicy and Entrenching Inequalities in Ethiopia: Reframing
Agency in the Global Land Rush.
Chapter
9. Overlaps, Overestimates and
Oversights: Domestic and Foreign Factors in the land rush in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo.
Chapter
10. Beyond the Land Rush? Reflections on
Future of Land Transactions in Africa.
Logan Cochrane is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University, Canada as well as Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University, Ethiopia.
Nathan Andrews is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.
