The Politics of Land Reform in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Land Reform in Africa write by Doctor Ambreena Manji. This book was released on 2013-07-04. The Politics of Land Reform in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets. Law reform is at the heart of this revolution. The Politics of Land Reform in Africa casts a critical spotlight on this profound change in African land economy. The book illuminates the key role of legislators, legal consultants and academics in tenure reform. These players exert their influence by translating the economic and regulatory interests of the World Bank, civil society groups and commercial lenders in to questions of law. Drawing on political economy and actor-network theory The Politics of Land Reform in Africa is an indispensable contribution to the study of agrarian change in developing countries.
The New Political Economy of Land Reform in South Africa
The New Political Economy of Land Reform in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Political Economy of Land Reform in South Africa write by Adeoye O. Akinola. This book was released on 2020-09-18. The New Political Economy of Land Reform in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes the new political economy of land reform in South Africa. It takes a holistic approach to understand South Africa’s land reform, assesses the current policy gaps, and suggests ways of filling them. Due to its cross-disciplinary approach, the book will appeal to a broad audience, and will benefit readers from the fields of policy reform, administration, law, political science, political economics, agricultural economics, global politics, resource studies and development studies.
African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation
African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation write by Shinichi Takeuchi. This book was released on 2021-10-10. African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the 1990s, no systematic analysis on their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.
African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State
African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State write by Sam Moyo. This book was released on 2008. African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and generally inadequate. It argues that the most pressing research concern must be to understand the precise nature of the African land question, its land reforms and their effects on development. To unravel the roots of land conflicts in Africa requires thorough understanding of the complex social and political contradictions which have ensued from colonial and post-colonial land policies, as well as from Africa's 'development' and capital accumulation trajectories, especially with regard to the land rights of the continent's poor. The study thus questions the capacity of emerging neo-liberal economic and political regimes in Africa to deliver land reforms which address growing inequality and poverty. It equally questions the understanding of the nature of popular demands for land reforms by African states, and their ability to address these demands under the current global political and economic structures dictated by neo-liberalism and its narrow regime of ownership. The study invites scholars and policy makers to creatively draw on the specific historical trajectories and contemporary expression of the land and agrarian questions in Africa, to enrich both theory and practice on land in Africa.
Trajectory of Land Reform in Post-Colonial African States
Trajectory of Land Reform in Post-Colonial African States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trajectory of Land Reform in Post-Colonial African States write by Adeoye O. Akinola. This book was released on 2018-06-13. Trajectory of Land Reform in Post-Colonial African States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an examination of post-colonial land reforms across various African states. One of the decisive contradictions of colonialism in Africa was the distortion of use, access to and ownership of land. Land related issues and the need for land reform have consistently occupied a unique position in public discourse in Africa. The post-colonial African states have had to embark on concerted efforts at redressing historical grounded land policies and addressing the growing needs of land by the poor. However, agitations for land continue, while evidence of policy gaps abound. In many cases, policy change in terms of land use, distribution and ownership has reinforced inequalities and affected power and social relations in respective post-colonial African countries. Land has assumed major causes of structural violence and impediments to human and rural development in Africa; hence the need for holistic assessment of land reforms in post-colonial African states. The central objective of the text is to identify post-independence and current trends in land reform and to address the grievances in relation to land use, ownership and distribution. The book suggests practicable policy options towards addressing the land hunger and conflict, which could derail the ‘moderate’ socio-economic achievements and political stability recorded by post-colonial African nation-states. The book draws its strength and uniqueness from its adoption of country-specific case studies, which places the book in context, and utilizes field studies methodology which generate new knowledge on the continental land question. Taking a holistic approach to understanding Africa’s land question, this book will be attractive to academicians and students interested in policy and development, African politics, post-colonial development and policy, and conflict studies as well as policy-makers working in relevant areas.
