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Africa's Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change

Africa's Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change

Hall, Ruth
Scoones, Ian
Tsikata, Dzodzi

Paperback

Series: African Issues, Book 36

Real EstateAnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1847011306
ISBN13: 9781847011305
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Jul 16 2015
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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 has been at the centre of a land grab in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for green energy, and cheap land and water rights. But such land is often also used or claimed through custom by communities. What does this mean for Africa? In what ways are rural people's lives and livelihoods being transformed as a result? And who will control its land and agricultural futures?

The case studies explore the processes through which land deals are being made; the implications for agrarian structure, rural livelihoods and food security; and the historical context of changing land uses, revealing that these land grabs may resonate with, even resurrect, forms of large-scale production associated with the colonial and early independence eras. The book depicts the striking diversity of deals and dealers: white Zimbabwean farmers in northern Nigeria, Dutch and American joint ventures in Ghana, an Indian agricultural company in Ethiopia's hinterland, European investors in Kenya's drylands and a Canadian biofuel company on its coast, South African sugar agribusiness in Tanzania's southern growth corridor, in Malawi's Greenbelt and in southern Mozambique, and white South African farmers venturing onto former state farms in the Congo.

Ruth Hall is Associate Professor at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and Director of the ESRC STEPS Centre; Dzodzi Tsikata is Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana, Legon.

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