Transnational Land Rush in Africa

Logan Cochrane is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University, Canada as well as Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University, Ethiopia.Nathan Andrews is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

• Foreword.- Chapter 1. IPE and the African Land Rush: Trends, Scale, Narratives and Contestations.- Part I: The Land-Development Nexus: Grand Discourses, Social Injustice and Contestations.- Chapter 2. Agri-Business Development in Cameroon: Colonial Legacies and Recent Tensions.- Chapter 3. The Faltering Land Rush and the Limits to Extractive Capitalism in Senegal.- Chapter 4. The ‘Modernization’ of Land Tenure in South Sudan and its Effects on Communal Land Rights.- Chapter 5. Behind Accumulation and Dispossession: State and Large-Scale Agricultural Land Investments in Nigeria.- Part II. Informality and ‘New’ Customary Land Tenure Landscapes.- Chapter 6. The Devil Has Many Faces: Community Forestry and How it Contributes to the Land Rush in Liberia.- Chapter 7. Agro-industrial Mega Land Deals in Sierra Leone: Beyond the Rhetorics of Beneficiation, Employment and Economic Development. -Part III. Formalization, Domestic Agency and Legacies of Legal Pluralism.- Chapter 8. The Power ofPolicy and Entrenching Inequalities in Ethiopia: Reframing Agency in the Global Land Rush.- Chapter 9. Overlaps, Overestimates and Oversights: Domestic and Foreign Factors in the ‘land rush in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.- Chapter 10. Beyond the Land Rush? Reflections on Future of Land Transactions in Africa.

“The transnational land rush in Africa: a decade after the spike … is a good collection of works on the recent transnational land rush in Africa, a decade after the 2007/2008 spike in commodity prices. … the book is an engaging collection with thought-provoking perspectives on the sources, drivers, resistance and ramifications of the transnational land rush in Africa a decade after the 2007/2008 spike.” (Abdul-Salam Ibrahim, Review of African Political Economy, July 23, 2021)