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| Other authors / contributors: | Codesria.
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| ISBN: | 9782869783843
2869783841
9782869782655
2869782659
9782869782020
2869782020
1282901230
9781282901230
9786612901232
6612901233
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-159).
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Moyo, Sam. African land questions, agrarian transitions and the state. Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, ©2008 9782869782020
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