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Record Nr.

UNINA9910502983003321

Autore

Takeuchi Shinichi

Titolo

African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation : States, Chiefs, and Rural Communities / / edited by Shinichi Takeuchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

981-16-4725-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Classificazione

HIS001000POL000000POL011000POL028000SOC042000

Disciplina

320.3

Soggetti

Comparative government

Africa - History

Political science

International relations

Economic development

Comparative Politics

African History

Governance and Government

International Relations

Development Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.