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Author:   Ruth Hall ,  Ian Scoones ,  Dzodzi Tsikata ,  Abdirizak Nunow
Publisher:   James Currey
Imprint:   James Currey
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.284kg
ISBN:  

9781847011305

ISBN 10:   1847011306
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: The Contexts and Consequences of Africa's Land Rush - Ruth Hall and Ian Scoones and Dzodzi Tsikata State, Land and Agricultural Commercialisation in Kwara State, Nigeria - Joseph Ariyo and Michael Mortimore Recent Transnational Land Deals and the Local Agrarian Economy in Ghana - Dzodzi Tsikata and Joseph Yaro Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia: Implications for Agricultural Transformation and Livelihood Security - Maru Shete Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia: Implications for Agricultural Transformation and Livelihood Security - Marcel Rutten Land Deals and Pastoralist Livelihoods in Laikipia County, Kenya - John Letai Land Deals in the Tana Delta, Kenya - Abdirizak Nunow The State and Foreign Capital in Agricultural Commercialisation: The Case of Tanzania's Kilombero Sugar Company - Emmanuel Sulle The State and Foreign Capital in Agricultural Commercialisation: The Case of Tanzania's Kilombero Sugar Company - Rebecca Smalley Trapped between the Farm Input Subsidy Programme and Green Belt Initiative: Malawi's Contemporary Agrarian Political Economy - Blessings Chinsinga Trapped between the Farm Input Subsidy Programme and Green Belt Initiative: Malawi's Contemporary Agrarian Political Economy - Michael Chasukwa Agrarian Struggles in Mozambique: Insights from Sugarcane Plantations - Gaynor Paradza and Emmanuel Sulle South African Commercial Farmers in the Congo - Ruth Hall and Ward Anseeuw and Gaynor Paradza

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(T)here has been a great need for the detailed case study approach and the kind of integrated, informed assessment presented in this collection. AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW This anthology provides up to date political economy perspectives of large-scale cases of land acquisitions in eight African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa). . . . (C)ompelling but not altogether comforting reading. AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY

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