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Policy discourses urging environmental rehabilitation, and rapid agricultural
intensification for food self-sufficiency are firmly entrenched in Ethiopia. This
paper examines the actor-networks and key policy spaces associated with the
establishment of these discourses, taking natural resource management policies,
and institutionalisation of the SG-2000 extension programme as case
studies. An emergent, and potentially challenging, participatory natural
resource management discourse is also identified. Contrasting the regions of
Tigray and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region
(SNNPR), the paper concludes by arguing that, with decentralisation, differences
between regional administrative and political cultures are key to
policy processes, affecting the degree to which central policies reflect local
concerns.

Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalisation. It reflects on the nature of expertise; the framing of knowledge; processes of public engagement; and issues of rights, justice and democracy. A wide varie

List of maps, tables and figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: the contexts and consequences of Africa's land rush / Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Dzodzi Tsikata -- State, land and agricultural commercialisation in Kwara State, Nigeria / Joseph A. Ariyo and Michael Mortimore -- Recent transnational land deals and the local agrarian economy in Ghana / Joseph Awetori Yaro and Dzodzi Tsikata -- Large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia: implications for agricultural transformation and livelihood security / Maru Shete and Marcel Rutten -- Land deals and pastoralist livelihoods in Laikipia County, Kenya / John Letai -- Land deals in the Tana Delta, Kenya / Abdirizak Arale Nunow -- The state and foreign capital in agricultural commercialisation: the case of Tanzania's Kilombero Sugar Company / Emmanuel Sulle and Rebecca Smalley -- Trapped between the farm input subsidy programme and the green belt initiative: Malawi's contemporary agrarian political economy / Blessings Chinsinga and Michael Chasukwa -- Agrarian struggles in Mozambique: insights from sugarcane plantations / Gaynor Paradza and Emmanuel Sulle -- South African commercial farms in the Congo / Ruth Hall, Ward Anseeuw and Gaynor Paradza -- References -- Index