Rethinking the land and agrarian questions in Africa
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Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9781928509080 |
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Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9781928509080 |
Author | : Sam Moyo |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 2869782020 |
This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and generally inadequate. It argues that the most pressing research concern must be to understand the precise nature of the African land question, its land reforms and their effects on development. To unravel the roots of land conflicts in Africa requires thorough understanding of the complex social and political contradictions which have ensued from colonial and post-colonial land policies, as well as from Africa's 'development' and capital accumulation trajectories, especially with regard to the land rights of the continent's poor. The study thus questions the capacity of emerging neo-liberal economic and political regimes in Africa to deliver land reforms which address growing inequality and poverty. It equally questions the understanding of the nature of popular demands for land reforms by African states, and their ability to address these demands under the current global political and economic structures dictated by neo-liberalism and its narrow regime of ownership. The study invites scholars and policy makers to creatively draw on the specific historical trajectories and contemporary expression of the land and agrarian questions in Africa, to enrich both theory and practice on land in Africa.
Author | : Sam Moyo |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2005-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781842774250 |
Agrarian reform in Brazil under neoliberalism: evaluation and perspectives / Lauro Mattei.
Author | : Praveen Kumar Jha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Agriculture and state |
ISBN | : 9788193926949 |
This book brings together renowned scholars from four continents to celebrate the lifelong and seminal contribution of Professor Sam Moyo to the social sciences. Moyo was a Zimbabwean scholar whose intellectual trajectory was part of the emergence of a critical scholarship based in the realities and traditions of Africa and the Third World.
Author | : Goran Hyden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2020-07-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429879369 |
Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation. This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely unknown Japanese research on the subject. The ethnographic fieldwork focuses not only on the micro environment of the producers but also the broader historical context in which they live and work. The contributors argue that, in comparison with other regions of the world, Africa has never passed through an agrarian revolution that would effectively change the mode of production from within. Modernization efforts from the outside have fallen far short of the ambition to transform agriculture in Africa. Rural Africa is still largely a natural society characterized by "non-agrarian" features as evident in people’s livelihood, social organization, and farming systems. This book will be of interest to social scientists and anthropologists focusing on African development, agriculture and agrarian societies,
Author | : Sam Moyo |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 2869786786 |
The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates. Increasingly, in response to the enduring problems of land tenure, there are land movements of all shapes and orientations, some reformist and others quite revolutionary in their agenda. However revolutionary, land movements have tended to ignore the land tenure interests of women, pastoralists, youth and indigenous people. Several of these longstanding and emerging issues in land tenure include the role of the state in land tenure reforms; urban land questions, the nature of land struggles and improvements; and, the impact of land tenure developments on particular social groups and countries. An overarching concern is the extent to which land rights are being commodified, through the conversion of land held under customary tenure systems into marketised systems. The consequences of this include growing land concentration, land tenure insecurities, diminishing access to land by various sections of society, including the poor, women and less dominant ethno-religious groups. This volume brings together different studies on Africas land questions exploring emerging land issues on the continent in terms of the wider questions of development, citizenship, and democratisation. The chapters discuss the land question through a variety of themes. Some focus on the agrarian aspects of the land questions, while others elucidate the urban dimensions of the land question.
Author | : Fred; Ntsebeza Hendricks, Lungisile; Helliker Kirk |
Publisher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2012-09-05 |
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ISBN | : 1431408182 |
The starting point for this book is that the current land reform policies in the country fail to take this colonial context of division and exclusion into account. As a result, there is an abiding land crisis in South Africa. The book examines the many dimensions of this crisis in urban areas, commercial farming areas and communal areas. It argues for a fundamental change in approach to move beyond the impasse in both policy and thinking about land. Of particular importance is that social movements have a critical role to play in charting a new course, both in respect of access to land and in influencing broader policy options. Struggles from below are crucial for rethinking purely statist efforts at land reform and the book grapples with the interplay between oppositional campaigns of social movements and the state’s policies and responses. Essentially, the book argues that in South Africa the 1994 transition from apartheid to democracy has not translated into a process of decolonisation. In fact, the very bases of colonialism and apartheid remain intact, since racial inequalities in both access to and ownership of land continue today. With state-driven attempts at land reform having failed to meet even their own targets, a fundamental change in approach is necessary for South Africa to move beyond the deadlock that prevails between the objectives of the policy, and the means for realising them. It is also necessary to question the targets set for land redistribution: Will these really assist in changes for the majority?
Author | : Selebano Matlhape |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Mafeje, Archie |
Publisher | : Geneva : United Nations Research Institute for Social Development |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Femke Brandt |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-03-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 900436255X |
Land Reform Revisited engages with contemporary debates on land reform and agrarian transformation in South Africa. The volume offers insights into post-apartheid transformation dynamics through the lens of agency and state making. The chapters written by emerging scholars are based on extensive qualitative research and their analysis highlights the ways in which people negotiate and contest land reform realities and politics. By focusing on the diverse meanings of land and competing interpretations of what constitutes success and failure in land reform Brandt and Mkodzongi insist on looking beyond the productivity discourses guiding research and policy making in the field towards an informed view from below. Contributors are: Kezia Batisai, Femke Brandt, Sarah Bruchhausen, Nerhene Davis, Elene Cloete, Tariro Kamuti, Tarminder Kaur, Grasian Mkodzongi, Camalita Naicker, Fani Ncapayi, Mnqobi Ngubane, and Chizuko Sato.