Africa for sale? : positioning the state, land and society in foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa

xii, 304 S.

graph. Darst., Kt.

24 cm

Afrika-Studiecentrum series. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, ISSN 1570-9310, ZDB-ID 2162661-3. - Vol. 29

Includes bibliographical references and index

Enth. 12 Beitr.

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 KrijtenburgSection 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.

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