Overview

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.  

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Author:   Logan Cochrane ,  Nathan Andrews
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9783030607913

ISBN 10:   3030607917
Pages:   287
Publication Date:   02 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 of Policy 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.

Reviews

The transnational land rush in Africa: a decade after the spike ... is a good collection of works on the recent transnational land rush in Africa, a decade after the 2007/2008 spike in commodity prices. ... the book is an engaging collection with thought-provoking perspectives on the sources, drivers, resistance and ramifications of the transnational land rush in Africa a decade after the 2007/2008 spike. (Abdul-Salam Ibrahim, Review of African Political Economy, July 23, 2021)

Author Information

Logan Cochrane is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University, Canada as well as Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University, Ethiopia. Nathan Andrews is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

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