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The Transnational Land Rush in Africa

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Cochrane, Logan; Andrews, Nathan

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60789-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-60788-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 2, 2021

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1International Political Economy and the Land Rush in Africa: Trends, Scale, Narratives, and Contestations

Andrews, Nathan; Cochrane, Logan

Pages: 1 –24

[This chapter underscores the relevance of international political economy (IPE) to this book’s contents by discussing the transnational nature of large-scale land acquisitions and the multi-scalar networks that permit and accompany such processes of acquisition (or ‘grabbing’). We connect the...
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Agri-Business Development in Cameroon: Colonial Legacies and Recent Tensions

Hamann, Steffi; Sneyd, Adam

Pages: 27 –54

[Although Cameroon was not a prime target in the modern-day scramble for Africa, the Central African country has been a site of intense land-related tensions in the past decade. According to data from the Land Matrix, 2,771,406 hectares were subjected to land deals since the year 2000. By late...
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The Faltering Land Rush and the Limits to Extractive Capitalism in Senegal

Gagné, Marie; Fent, Ashley

Pages: 55 –85

[The Senegalese government has emphasized agriculture and mining as strategic priorities for economic development since the 2000s. The promotion of large-scale agro-industrial and mining projects reflects a strong embrace of extractive capitalism, wherein the state relies on the production,...
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Epilogue of a Short-Lived Land Rush: Private, Rural, and Urban Land Tenure in South Sudan

Wight, Patrick

Pages: 87 –112

[This article investigates three forms of land tenure in South Sudan: investor leasehold, rural customary, and urban freehold. South Sudan’s experience with large-scale foreign investments in land mirrors that of the global land rush. A surge of investments from 2007 to 2013 has since tapered off...
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Behind Accumulation and Dispossession: State and Large-Scale Agricultural Land Investments in Nigeria

Attah, Noah Echa

Pages: 113 –136

[The academic, policy, and popular debate about large-scale land deals, particularly in Africa, centres on the extent of dispossession involved. The World Bank maintains that the investment of international capital into Africa’s land will lead to economic development through sales, leases,...
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Under the Disguise of Participation: Community Forestry as a New Form of Land Rush in Liberia

Roesch, Ricarda

Pages: 139 –172

[A variety of national and international actors embarked upon the reform of the Liberian forest sector after the end of the civil war in 2003, in part due to the logging sanctions enacted by the United Nations during the conflict. One result of these reform efforts was the adoption of the...
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Agro-Industrial Mega-Land Deals in Sierra Leone: Beyond the Rhetoric of Beneficiation, Employment and Economic Development

Gbanie, Solomon Peter; Thornton, Alec

Pages: 173 –187

[Following the surge in global food prices in 2007/2008, the Government of Sierra Leone facilitated large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for sugar cane and oil palm plantations on behalf of transnational agribusiness firms. Commonly referred to as “land grabs,” large-scale land acquisitions are...
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The Politics of “Land Grabs” and Development Contradictions in Zimbabwe: The Case of the Chisumbanje Ethanol Project

Matondi, Prosper B.; Rutherford, Blair

Pages: 189 –212

[This chapter critically examines the Chisumbanje ethanol mega-project in south-eastern Zimbabwe in light of the emergent, popular discourse on “land grabs.” The Chisumbanje project is a public–private partnershippublic-private partnerships between the Government of Zimbabwe through the...
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The Power of Policy and the Entrenchment of Inequalities in Ethiopia: Reframing Agency in the Global Land Rush

Dejene, Melisew; Cochrane, Logan

Pages: 215 –234

[Ethiopia has drawn global attention as one of the epicentres of the global rush for agricultural land. The government is actively seeking out foreign investors and offering attractive incentive packages. These land deals, however, have not been well-received by local populations due to resultant...
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Overlaps, Overestimates and Oversights: Understanding Domestic and Foreign Factors in the Land Rush in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Huggins, Chris

Pages: 235 –260

[The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an emblematic case in the ‘Global Land Grab,’ with reports of 11 million hectares acquired by foreign firms between 2000 and 2020. However, this figure is an underestimate. The acquisition of land by domestic actors, often under coercive...

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