Africa's Land Rush
Title | Africa's Land Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Hall |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1847011306 |
Interrogates the narratives of land grabbing and agricultural investment through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy.
Africa's Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change
Title | Africa's Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Hall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
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ISBN | 9781782045588 |
The Transnational Land Rush in Africa
Title | The Transnational Land Rush in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Logan Cochrane |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2021-02-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030607895 |
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.
The Transnational Land Rush in Africa
Title | The Transnational Land Rush in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Logan Cochrane |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783030607906 |
"This is an exemplary political economy analysis of what has happened across Africa since the contemporary global land grabbing occurred more than a decade ago. While the topic and questions addressed may sound familiar to many readers who have been tracking the issue over the last decade, this volume provides a much needed up to date information, critical insights and nuanced analysis, which place it among the best in Africa's land rush scholarship and beyond." - Tsegaye Moreda, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam "While the stories have faded from the headlines in the decade or so since the trend first emerged, discussions about the implications of large-scale land investments have persisted among academics and development practitioners. This volume manages to both highlight emerging trends and provide an analysis that is rich in contextual detail, while making. an important and timely contribution to discourses on the nexus between law, power and economic development in Africa." -David Deng, Human Rights Lawyer and Researcher, Detcro LLC 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. Logan Cochrane is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University, Canada. Nathan Andrews is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.
The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya
Title | The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | Ambreena Manji |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1847012558 |
Finalist for the African Studies Association's 2021 Best Book Prize. Explores the limits of law in changing unequal land relations in Kenya.
Accountability in Africa's Land Rush
Title | Accountability in Africa's Land Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Polack |
Publisher | |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Land tenure |
ISBN | 9781843699132 |
The Great African Land Grab?
Title | The Great African Land Grab? PDF eBook |
Author | Lorenzo Cotula |
Publisher | Zed Books Ltd. |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2013-07-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1780323123 |
Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed of little outside interest is now being sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Private-sector expectations of higher world food and commodity prices and government concerns about longer-term national food and energy security have both made land a more attractive asset. Dubbed ‘land grabs’ in the media, large-scale land acquisitions have become one of the most talked about and contentious topics amongst those studying, working in or writing about Africa. Some commentators have welcomed this trend as a bearer of new livelihood opportunities. Others have countered by pointing to negative social impacts, including loss of local land rights, threats to local food security and the risk that large-scale investments may marginalize family farming. Lorenzo Cotula, a leading expert in the field, casts a critical eye over the most reliable evidence on this hotly contested topic, examining the implications of land deals in Africa both for its people and for world agriculture and food security.