The transnational land rush in Africa : a decade after the spike / Logan Cochrane and Nathan Andrews.
Cochrane, Logan, author.; Andrews Nathan, author.
2021
HG5822 .C63 2021
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Title
The transnational land rush in Africa : a decade after the spike / Logan Cochrane and Nathan Andrews.
Author
Cochrane, Logan, author.
ISBN
9783030607890 (electronic book)
3030607895 (electronic book)
3030607887
9783030607883
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60789-0
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-60789-0 doi
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HG5822 .C63 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
332.673096
Summary
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. Logan Cochrane is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University, Canada. 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Andrews Nathan, author.
Series
International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Transnational land rush in Africa.
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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.

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