African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation States, Chiefs, and Rural Communities /

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 thei...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Takeuchi, Shinichi (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • About the contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: drastic rural changes in the age of land reform
  • Chapter 2. Land administration, chiefs, and governance in Ghana
  • Chapter 3. 'We owned this land before the state was established': The state, traditional authorities, and land policy in Africa
  • Chapter 4. Renewed patronage and strengthened authority of chiefs under the scarcity of customary land in Zambia
  • Chapter 5. Land tenure reform in three former settler colonies in Southern Africa
  • Chapter 6. Politics of land resource management in Mozambique
  • Chapter 7. Land law reform and complex state-building process in Rwanda
  • Chapter 8. Post-Cold War Ethiopian land policy and state power in land commercialisation
  • Chapter 9. Traversing state, agribusinesses, and farmers' land discourse in Kenyan commercial intensive agriculture.