The Transnational Land Rush in Africa A Decade After the Spike /
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| Summary: | XXV, 287 p. 18 illus., 10 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | International Political Economy Series,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60789-0 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.