Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Shinichi Takeuchi & Kojo S. Amanor. “Introduction: Social outcomes of land reform in post-Cold War Africa”
2. Kojo S. Amanor. “Land governance, class and rural development in Ghana”
3. Peter Narh. “Traversing state, agribusinesses, and farmers' land discourses in Kenyan intensive agriculture”
4. Horman Chitonge. “Land reform in Africa: The governance of customary land in the spotlight”
5. Shuichi Oyama. “Shifting cultivation and land tenure reform in Zambia”
6. Akiyo Aminaka. “Politics over the land resource management in Mozambique”
7. Shinichi Takeuchi. “Land law reform and the state-building in Rwanda”
8. Teshome Emana. “Urban policy and state power in urban land commercialization in Ethiopia”
9. Chizuko Sato. “Land tenure reform in three former settler colonies in Southern Africa”
10. Lungisile Ntsebeza. “Land tenure reform in South Africa's former Bantustans: Reform or regression?”
11. Shinichi Takeuchi. “Conclusion: Community, chief, and the state,”
