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positioning the state, land and society in foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa

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An edition of Africa for sale? (2013)

Africa for sale?

positioning the state, land and society in foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa

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The past several decades have witnessed a rise in foreign and domestic investments in Africa's arable land. While such land projects are currently the focus of widespread media and scholarly interest, the role of the state in driving, negotiating and facilitating these acquisitions deserves closer attention. This book analyzes how state land policies, stakeholder interactions and privatization schemes interact to facilitate large-scale land acquisitions. It includes a study of the various forms of state intervention, the influence of foreign agencies, governments and private entities, and a look at how states interact with local populations. The inclusion of case studies in settings throughout the African continent should attract the interest of both an academic and non-academic readership.

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
304

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Subjects

Rural Land use, Real property, Foreign ownership, Farm ownership, Foreign Investments, Land use, rural, Real property, africa, Investments, foreign, africa, Land tenure, africa

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Africa
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Table of Contents

Introduction: contested landscapes-analysing the role of the state, land reforms and privatization in foreign land deals in Africa / Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Caroline Seagle and Froukje Krijtenburg
Section 1. The reconfiguration of rural landscapes and livelihoods in the recent scramble for African land
Corporate land deals, dispossession and the future of farming / Ben White
A critical review of the policy debate on large scale land acquisition: fighting the symptoms or killing the heart? / Annelies Zoomers
Challenges and risks for bilateral relations from foreign large-scale land acquisitions / Michael J. Strauss
Section 2. The creation of fertile ground for the structuring of foreign large-scale land acquisitions: land reforms, privatization and competing jurisdictions
Land consolidation and the expansion of game farming in South Africa: impacts on farm dwellers' livelihoods and rights to land in the Eastern Cape / Nancy Andrew, Femke Brandt, Marja Spierenburg, Dhoya Snijders and Nomalanga Mkhize
Development and dispossession: impacts of land reform in Botswana / Maria Sapignoli and Robert K. Hitchcock
Domestic and foreign investment in irrigable land in Mali: tensions between the dream of large-scale farming and the reality of family farming / Amandine Adamczewski, Perrine Burnod, Hermine Papazian, Yacouba Coulibaly, Jean-Philippe Tonneau and Jean-Yves Jamin
Conflict between industrial and artisanal mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): case studies from Katanga, Ituri and Kivu / Ruben de Koning
Section 3. Stakeholder interactions and competing valuations of land
Shifting patterns of land use and ownership in Burkina Faso with a case-study of two Kurumba villages, Bourzanga and Pobe-Mengao / Lucjan Buchalik
Being a foreigner in one's country: mobility, land acquisition and investments in Cameroon / Evelyne N. Tegomoh
Ancestors and title deeds: rural transformation in 20th century South Africa and the consolidation of ethnic-based identities / Gitte Postel
Competing rhetoric in the context of foreign land acquisitions: the case of "new Nigeria" / Akachi Odoemene
'Keeping this land safe': stakeholder conceptualisations of protection in the context of a Mijikenda (Kenya) world heritage site / Froukje Krijtenburg.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Afrika-Studiecentrum series -- v. 29, Afrika-Studiecentrum series -- v. 29.

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Dewey Decimal Class
333.3096
Library of Congress
HD966 .A34 2013, HD966.A34 2013

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xii, 304 p.
Number of pages
304

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Open Library
OL31134947M
ISBN 13
9789004251939, 9789004252646
LCCN
2013011078
OCLC/WorldCat
844690068, 830992874

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