The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike
In: International Political Economy Series
In: Springer eBook Collection
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.