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

Preface
Contents
Editor and Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction: Drastic Rural Changes in the Age of Land Reform
	1 Investigating Rural Change Through the Lens of Land Reform
	2 Customary Land Tenure in Africa
	3 Pressure on, and Changes in, the African Land
	4 Backgrounds to Land Reform
	5 What the Land Tenure Reforms Have Produced
		5.1 Commodification of Customary Land
		5.2 Political Implications of Land Reform
	6 Structure of This Book
	References
Land Administration, Chiefs, and Governance in Ghana
	1 Introduction
	2 Discourses About Chiefs and Land Administration in Ghana
	3 Modernisation and the Commodification of Land in the Nineteenth Century and Colonial Gold Coast
	4 Land and Chiefs in the Early Independence Period
		4.1 Reforming Chiefly Institutions in the Early Independence Period
		4.2 The Rise of Commercial Farmers in the 1970s and Its Impact on Land Relations
	5 Governance Reforms, Civil Society, Traditional Authorities, and Land Markets
		5.1 Liberal Reforms, Civil Society, and Strengthening of Traditional Authorities
		5.2 Forestry Governance and Collaborative Forest Management
		5.3 Land Administration Reforms and Customary Land Secretariats
	6 Conclusion
	References
‘We Owned the Land Before the State Was Established’: The State, Traditional Authorities, and Land Policy in Africa
	1 Introduction
	2 The Politics of Land in Africa
		2.1 Chiefs, the State, and Customary Land in Africa
		2.2 Riding on the Democratic Wave
	3 Land Governance in Africa
		3.1 Land and Statehood
	4 Land in Zambia
		4.1 Categories of Land
		4.2 Land Governance in Zambia
		4.3 Land Policy Reforms in Zambia
		4.4 Traditional Leaders’ Response to the Proposed Land Policy Reforms
		4.5 The State’s Response
	5 Reforming Customary Land Administration
		5.1 Traditional Leaders’ Power Base
		5.2 The State–traditional Leaders Relationship Over Land in Africa
	6 Conclusion
	References
Renewed Patronage and Strengthened Authority of Chiefs Under the Scarcity of Customary Land in Zambia
	1 Introduction
	2 Land Tenure System in Zambia
	3 Social Organisation, Agriculture, and Land of the Bemba Chiefdom
	4 The 1995 Lands Act and Customary Land in the Territory of Chief L
	5 Local Land Governance Reforms Issued by the Chief
	6 A New Trend: Villagers Acquiring Land Allocation Forms
	7 Friction Between Local Residents and Recipients of Land Allocation Forms
		7.1 Friction with Local Residents
		7.2 Leasehold Changes Accompanying Changes in Title Holders
	8 The chief’s Revocation of Title Deeds and Reversion to Customary Land
	9 Conclusion
	References
Land Tenure Reform in Three Former Settler Colonies in Southern Africa
	1 Introduction
	2 Types of Land Tenure in Three Former Settler Colonies in Southern Africa
	3 Land Tenure Reform Policy After Independence and Its Contestations
		3.1 Zimbabwe
		3.2 Namibia
		3.3 South Africa
	4 Traditional Leadership and Rural Land Governance
		4.1 Popularity of Traditional Leadership: Resurgence, Tenacity, Reinvention
		4.2 Chiefs, State/Ruling Party, and Rural Land Governance
	5 Conclusion
	References
Politics of Land Resource Management in Mozambique
	1 Introduction
	2 Legal Design Amid an FDI-Driven Economy
	3 Political Interests in Village Administration
		3.1 Revival of Traditional Authority for Vote-Getting
		3.2 Growing Interest in Resource Management
	4 The Site of the Implementation of Land Law
		4.1 Social Structure and Changing Land Use
		4.2 Political Dynamics Over Benefit Distribution
		4.3 Case 1: Temptation of pro-Frelimo régulo
		4.4 Case 2: Exclusion of pro-Renamo régulo
		4.5 Impact of Political Intervention on Village Governance
	5 Conclusion
	References
Land Law Reform and Complex State-Building Process in Rwanda
	1 Introduction
	2 Methodology
	3 The Rwandan State and Land Before the Civil War
	4 Land Law Reform in Rwanda
	5 Context of Land Law Reform in Rwanda
	6 Mixed Results of the Land Registration Project
	7 Conclusion
	References
Post-cold War Ethiopian Land Policy and State Power in Land Commercialisation
	1 Introduction
	2 An Overview of Ethiopian Land Policy from the Imperial to the Derg Period
	3 Land Policy After the Cold War
	4 Post-Cold War Land Commercialisation Schemes
		4.1 Large-Scale Agricultural Investment
		4.2 Land Banks
		4.3 Loan-Giving Financial Institutions
		4.4 Rural Land Registration and Certification
	5 Role of Transnational Development Agencies
		5.1 USAID
		5.2 DFID
	6 Corruption and Large-Scale Agricultural Investment
	7 Conclusion
	References
Traversing State, Agribusinesses, and Farmers’ Land Discourse in Kenyan Commercial Intensive Agriculture
	1 Introduction
	2 Land Reform’s Linkage with Agricultural Productivity
	3 Methods
	4 Political Ecology Analytical Framework
	5 Land Discourse in Kenyan National Land Policies
		5.1 Land Reform for Agricultural Productivity
	6 Results and Discussions
		6.1 Farmers Control Over Sugarcane Production Processes
		6.2 Control Over Land and Local Infrastructure
		6.3 Dependence on External Inputs and Youth Access to Land
	7 Conclusions
	References
Index