"This is an exemplary political economy analysis of what has happened across Africa since the contemporary global land grabbing occurred more than a decade ago. While the topic and questions addressed may sound familiar to many readers who have been tracking the issue over the last decade, this volume provides a much needed up to date information, critical insights and nuanced analysis, which place it among the best in Africa's land rush scholarship and beyond."

• Tsegaye Moreda, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam

"While the stories have faded from the headlines in the decade or so since the trend first emerged, discussions about the implications of large-scale land investments have persisted among academics and development practitioners. This volume manages to both highlight emerging trends and provide an analysis that is rich in contextual detail, while making. an important and timely contribution to discourses on the nexus between law, power and economic development in Africa."

-David Deng, Human Rights Lawyer and Researcher, Detcro LLC

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.

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.  

Inhalt

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.