Logan Cochrane & Nathan Andrews 
The Transnational Land Rush in Africa [PDF ebook] 
A Decade After the Spike

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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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Table des matières

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.

A propos de l’auteur

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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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 287 ● ISBN 9783030607890 ● Taille du fichier 4.4 MB ● Éditeur Logan Cochrane & Nathan Andrews ● Maison d’édition Springer International Publishing ● Lieu Cham ● Pays CH ● Publié 2021 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7748333 ● Protection contre la copie DRM sociale

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