Africa for Sale?: Positioning the State, Land and Society in Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa (Afrika-Studiecentrum)

Africa for Sale? Positioning the State, Land and Society in Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa analyzes the role of the state in driving, negotiating and facilitating (foreign) land deals, and examines the extent to which large-scale land acquisitions are conditioned by land policies and state relations. Introduction: contested landscapes-analysing the role of the state, land reforms and privatization in foreign land deals in Africa / Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Caroline Seagle and Froukje Krijtenburg Section 1. The reconfiguration of rural landscapes and livelihoods in the recent scramble for African land Corporate land deals, dispossession and the future of farming / Ben White A critical review of the policy debate on large scale land acquisition: fighting the symptoms or killing the heart? / Annelies Zoomers Challenges and risks for bilateral relations from foreign large-scale land acquisitions / Michael J. Strauss Section 2. The creation of fertile ground for the structuring of foreign large-scale land acquisitions: land reforms, privatization and competing jurisdictions Land consolidation and the expansion of game farming in South Africa: impacts on farm dwellers' livelihoods and rights to land in the Eastern Cape / Nancy Andrew, Femke Brandt, Marja Spierenburg, Dhoya Snijders and Nomalanga Mkhize Development and dispossession: impacts of land reform in Botswana / Maria Sapignoli and Robert K. Hitchcock Domestic and foreign investment in irrigable land in Mali: tensions between the dream of large-scale farming and the reality of family farming / Amandine Adamczewski, Perrine Burnod, Hermine Papazian, Yacouba Coulibaly, Jean-Philippe Tonneau and Jean-Yves Jamin Conflict between industrial and artisanal mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): case studies from Katanga, Ituri and Kivu / Ruben de Koning Section 3. Stakeholder interactions and competing valuations of land Shifting patterns of land use and ownership in Burkina Faso with a case-study of two Kurumba villages, Bourzanga and Pobe-Mengao / Lucjan Buchalik Being a foreigner in one's country: mobility, land acquisition and investments in Cameroon / Evelyne N. Tegomoh Ancestors and title deeds: rural transformation in 20th century South Africa and the consolidation of ethnic-based identities / Gitte Postel Competing rhetoric in the context of foreign land acquisitions: the case of "new Nigeria" / Akachi Odoemene 'Keeping this land safe': stakeholder conceptualisations of protection in the context of a Mijikenda (Kenya) world heritage site / Froukje Krijtenburg. Subject: The past several decades have witnessed a rise in foreign and domestic investments in Africa's arable land. While such land projects are currently the focus of widespread media and scholarly interest, the role of the state in driving, negotiating and facilitating these acquisitions deserves closer attention. This book analyzes how state land policies, stakeholder interactions and privatization schemes interact to facilitate large-scale land acquisitions. It includes a study of the various forms of state intervention, the influence of foreign agencies, governments and private entities, and a look at how states interact with local populations. The inclusion of case studies in settings throughout the African continent should attract the interest of both an academic and non-academic readership