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Land Grabbing in Africa: The Race for Africa’s Rich Farmland book cover

1st Edition

Land Grabbing in Africa The Race for Africa’s Rich Farmland

Edited By Fassil Demissie Copyright 2015
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge
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The sign that ‘Africa is on Sale’ has been appearing with regular frequency in major newspaper accounts across the world, indicating that large amounts/expanses of Africa’s rich farmlands are being sold to transnational investors, usually on long-term leases, at a rate not seen in decades – indeed not since the colonial period. Transnational and national economic actors from various... Read more

1. The new scramble over Africa’s farmland: an introduction  2. Geopolitical drivers of foreign investment in African land and water resources  3. The perils of development from above: land deals in Ethiopia  4. Forest investments and channels of contestation in highland Ethiopia  5. Scrambling for the promised land: land acquisitions and the politics of representation in post-war Acholi, northern Uganda  6. Asian capitalism, primitive accumulation, and the new enclosures in Uganda  7. Land grab in new garb: Chinese special economic zones in Africa The case of Mauritius  8. Fixity, the discourse of efficiency, and enclosure in the Sahelian land ‘reserve’  9. Water resources and biofuel production after the fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe

Biography

Fassil Demissie, Ph.D is a faculty member in the Department of Public Policy, DePaul University, USA. He is currently the Co-Editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal and is the author of Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) and Postcolonial African Cities (New York: Routledge, 2008)

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