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.