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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Takeuchi, Shinichi.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation
  • 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.

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