Land, Rights and the Politics of Investments in Africa

Edited by Lars Buur, Professor in the Political Economy of Development, Roskilde University, Denmark, José Jaime Macuane, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique, Faustin Peter Maganga, Associate Professor, Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC), St. John’s University of Tanzania, Tanzania and Rasmus H. Pedersen, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

• Contents:Introduction to Land, Rights and the Politics of Investments in Africa 1Lars Buur, José J. Macuane, Faustin Maganga and Rasmus H. Pedersen1 Community participation in Tanzania’s petroleum sector 37Opportuna L. Kweka and Rasmus H. Pedersen2 LNG investments in Mozambique: compensation dealsand the dynamics of local state-making 58Padil Salimo3 The double role of the state: the state as investor andmediator in the Tanzanian coal sector 77Thabit Jacob4 Riding the waves of change: changing relations in theUgandan sugar sector 99Malin J. Nystrand, Arthur Sserwanga and Brenda Kyomuhendo5 The politics of the smallholder–investor relationship in theTanzanian sugar sector 124Emmanuel Sulle, Faustin Maganga, Rose Qamara, EvansBoadu, Happiness Malle and Onesmo Minani6 A failing local exchange deal: rights to land and resourcesin the WanBao rice investment in Mozambique 146Lars Buur and Kathrin Beykirch7 Exchange relations in rice contract farming schemes in Tanzania 173Eileen Dyer Jarnholt, Faustin Maganga and George Schoneveld8 Conclusion 194Lars Buur and Rasmus H. PedersenIndex 205

‘Challenging established approaches to understanding the drivers shaping large-scale investments, state policy-making and social outcomes in contemporary Africa’s extractive resources, this new collection of sectoral studies confronts head-on a critical research gap in the current literature: what role do local communities and interests play in shaping foreign investments and state regulation, and how do the evolving relations among public, private and social actors inflect the trajectory of resource based development strategies? In response, this book provides a fresh, richly-detailed body of evidence and analysis which marks an important contribution to comparative and public policy research in Africa’s key natural resources sector.’