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Africa's land rush : rural livelihoods & agrarian change /

Africa has been at the centre of a'land grab'in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for'green'energy, and cheap land and water rights. But such land is often also used or claimed through custom by communities. What does this mea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hall, Ruth (Editor ), Scoones, Ian (Editor ), Tsikata, Dzodzi (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : James Currey, 2015.
Colección:African issues.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the contexts & consequences of Africa's land rush / Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones & Dzodzi Tsikata
  • State, land & agricultural commercialisation in Kwara State, Nigeria / Joseph A. Ariyo & Michael Mortimore
  • Recent transnational land deals & the local agrarian economy in Ghana / Joseph Awetori Yaro & Dzodzi Tsikata
  • Large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia: implications for agricultural transformation & livelihood security / Maru Shete & Marcel Rutten
  • Land deals & pastoralist livelihoods in Laikipia County, Kenya / John Letai
  • Land deals in the Tana Delta, Kenya / Abdirizak Arale Nunow
  • The state & foreign capital in agricultural commercialisation: the case of Tanzania's Kilombero Sugar Company / Emmanuel Sulle & Rebecca Smalley
  • Trapped between the farm input subsidy programme & the Green Belt initiative: Malawi's contemporary agrarian political economy / Blessings Chinsinga & Michael Chasukwa
  • Agrarian struggles in Mozambique: insights from sugarcane plantations / Gaynor Paradza & Emmanuel Sulle
  • South African commercial farmers in the congo / Ruth Hall, Ward Anseeuw & Gaynor Paradza.