African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation: States, Chiefs, and Rural Communities Takeuchi Shinichi
African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation: States, Chiefs, and Rural Communities Takeuchi Shinichi This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the…
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African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation: States, Chiefs, and Rural Communities Takeuchi Shinichi
This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. 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.
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. 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. The comparative