The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike (International Political Economy Series)

Acknowledgments
Praise for The Transnational Land Rush in Africa
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acronyms
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 International Political Economy and the Land Rush in Africa: Trends, Scale, Narratives, and Contestations
	Introduction
	Land and the International Political Economy: Contributions and Silences
	Scope and Structure of the Book
		The Land-Development Nexus: Grand Discourses, Social Injustice and Contestations
		Informality and ‘New’ Customary Land Tenure Landscapes
		Formalization, Domestic Agency, and Legacies of Legal Pluralism
	Concluding Remarks
	References
Part I The Land-Development Nexus: Grand Discourses, Social Injustice and Contestations
2 Agri-Business Development in Cameroon: Colonial Legacies and Recent Tensions
	Introduction and Country Context
	Theoretical Framework
	Methods
	Legal, Policy, and Regulatory Context
		Vision 2035 and Investment Code Reform
		Cameroon’s Land Code
	Findings: The New Rush for Land in Cameroon
		Landscape of Investments Today
		Agriculture Deals: Cases and Controversies
	Conclusion and Discussion
	References
3 The Faltering Land Rush and the Limits to Extractive Capitalism in Senegal
	Introduction
	Contemporary Land Deals as Extractive Capitalism
	Methods
	Country Background and Legal Frameworks
		Political Situation in Senegal
		Land Tenure in Senegal
	The Senegalese Land Rush
	Documenting the Faltering Land Rush in Senegal
	Reasons for Project Cancellation and Delays
		Community-Level and Civil Society Opposition
		State Ambivalence and Changing Policy Priorities
		Poor Investor Capabilities
	Conclusion: The Future of Extractive Capitalism and Land Deals in Senegal
	Works Cited
4 Epilogue of a Short-Lived Land Rush: Private, Rural, and Urban Land Tenure in South Sudan
	Introduction
	Theoretical Overview of Private, Rural, and Urban Land Tenure Systems
	South Sudan’s Legal Framework
	Large-Scale Private Investments in South Sudan
	Rural Land in South Sudan
	Urban Land in South Sudan
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
5 Behind Accumulation and Dispossession: State and Large-Scale Agricultural Land Investments in Nigeria
	Introduction
	Overview and Trends in Large-Scale Land Deals
	The 1978 Land Use Act and Large-Scale Land Acquisition
	White Zimbabwean Commercial Farmers and Large-Scale Land Acquisition
	Wilmar International and Land Grab
	Dominion Farms and Large-Scale Land Acquisition
	Other Large-Scale Land Deals and Dispossessions
	Conclusion
	References
Part II Informality and ‘New’ Customary Land Tenure Landscapes
6 Under the Disguise of Participation: Community Forestry as a New Form of Land Rush in Liberia
	Introduction
	Methodology
	Liberia’s Post-war Logging Sector
		Post-war Reform of the Logging Sector: The Four Cs
		The Emergence of Community Forestry
		The Legal Framework of Community Forestry
	Community Forestry in Practice: A New Form of the Land Grab?
		Beyan Poye Community Forest
			Background
			The Nine Steps in Practice
			Outcome of the Nine Steps
		Sehzueplay Community Forest
			Background
			The Nine Steps in Practice
			The Outcome of the Nine Steps
	Conclusion: From Commercial to Community Back to Commercial
	References
7 Agro-Industrial Mega-Land Deals in Sierra Leone: Beyond the Rhetoric of Beneficiation, Employment and Economic Development
	Introduction
	Sierra Leone in Context
	Land Tenure and Lease Arrangement
	Sierra Leone’s Mega Agro-Industrial Land Deals at a Glance
	Findings and Discussions
	Conclusion
	References
8 The Politics of “Land Grabs” and Development Contradictions in Zimbabwe: The Case of the Chisumbanje Ethanol Project
	Introduction
	Context and Scope
	Governance Entanglements
	Some Socioeconomic Impacts of the Project
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part III Formalization, Domestic Agency and Legacies of Legal Pluralism
9 The Power of Policy and the Entrenchment of Inequalities in Ethiopia: Reframing Agency in the Global Land Rush
	Introduction
	The Ethiopian Context
	Methodology and Methods
	Legal and Policy Changes
	The Landscape of Investments and Ongoing Issues
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
10 Overlaps, Overestimates and Oversights: Understanding Domestic and Foreign Factors in the Land Rush in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	Introduction
	Conceptual Framework
	Country Context
	Chronological Overview of the Land Tenure Legal System in the DRC
		The General Property Law of 1973
		The 2006 Constitution
		Conseil Agricole Rural de Gestion (CARG)
		The 2011 Agricultural Law
		Forestry Legislation
		Land Law and Policy Reform
	Case Studies
		Feronia Palm Oil Plantation
		Land Acquisition in the Mining Sector
		Land Acquisition in Forested and Protected Areas
		Agribusiness Parks
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
11 Beyond the Land Rush? Reflections on Transnational Interactions and the Future IPE of Africa
	Introduction
	Inclusion Limitations and Regional Perspectives
	Understanding Sub-regional Comparisons of the Transnational Land Rush
		Lease Trends
		Commodity Trends
		Legal Regimes and Land Tenure Systems
		“Glocal” Actors in the Transnational Land Rush
	Concluding Reflections: Beyond the Land Rush?
	Bibliography
Correction to: The Transnational Land Rush in Africa
	Correction to:  L. Cochrane and N. Andrews (eds.),  The Transnational Land Rush in Africa, International Political Economy Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60789-0
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