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

• Author: Takeuchi, Shinichi.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (215 pages)

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.