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

• Author: Takeuchi, Shinichi.
• Sonstige: Takeuchi, Shinichi
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This 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 thei...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• 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