Ward Anseeuw
Biographic Data
| ID | 105541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ward Anseeuw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ward |
| FAMILY NAME | Anseeuw |
| SIGNATURE | ANSEEUW W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6143-8493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pushing accountability boundaries for transnational land investments
Land deals worldwide persist in reinforcing the dispossession of traditional communities, facilitating the transfer of public lands to private entities, and contributing to violence. Land control remains opaque and financial capital shows a growing interest in land as an 'alternative asset'. A prevailing trend in land investments is the anonymity of ultimate beneficiaries and major investors within these corporate and financial firms. Merging obs…
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya
We study smallholder households livelihood profiles in central Kenya in an area characterized by the presence of many large commercial farms. We surveyed 375 smallholder households, compared them according to three categories (employed, contract farmers, households non-engaged with commercial farms), and constructed a livelihood index. The results show that contract farmers and households employed on farms are only a small fraction of all smallho…
Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique
Oberlack, C., M. Giger, W. Anseeuw, C. Adelle, M. Bourblanc, P. Burnod, S. Eckert, W. Fitawek, E. Fouilleux, S. L. Hendriks, B. Kiteme, L. Masola, Z. Mawoko, S. Mercandalli, A. Reys, M. da Silva, M. van der Laan, J. G. Zaehringer, and P. Messerli. 2021. Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Ecology and Society 26(4):18…
Large agricultural investments in Kenya’s Nanyuki Area
Explaining South Africa’s land reform policy failure through its instruments
This paper seeks to explain the emergence of South African inclusive agricultural business models in relation to the land reform policy. We demonstrate that in South Africa such policy instruments linking small-scale and large-scale farmers respond to endogenous dynamics linked to the failure of its land reform policy. We study the land reform policy change induced by its policy instruments. Indeed, introducing the market as the preferred means t…
Facing financialization
This paper analyses the transformation of the South African (former) grain cooperatives since 1994. These entities played a key role in the institutional architecture of the apartheid regime, ensuring the domination of white commercial farmers over the sector. Within the framework of the deregulation of the economy and the agricultural sector, such entities faced transformations of modern capitalism, especially the growing power of financial acto…
Financer le développement agricole en Afrique du Sud
Le secteur agricole revêt en Afrique du Sud un caractère stratégique depuis le début du XX e siècle. Tout à la fois rouage du système d'accumulation national centré sur les mines, réservoir de voix pour le Parti national pendant l'apartheid et enjeu majeur de la transformation économique et sociale postapartheid, l'agriculture a fait l'objet d'une attention particulière de la part des gouvernements successifs. À ce titre, l'État a mis en place de…
Migration and resilience of rural households' livelihoods in the face of changing political and economic contexts
This article investigates how labour migrations of rural households from Leonzoane in Southern Mozambique have changed since the colonial period to a post-war (1992) and post-apartheid (1994) context and their links with livelihoods restructuring. It draws on a qualitative analysis of the features of labour migrations, through a sample of households on five generations. Results reveal the evolution of men's forms of mobility from longstanding cir…
Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns
This study assesses changes over the past decade in the farm size distributions of Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, drawing on two or more waves of nationally representative population‐based and/or area‐based surveys. Analysis indicates that much of Sub‐Saharan Africa is experiencing major changes in farm land ownership patterns. Among all farms below 100 hectares in size, the share of land on small‐scale holdings under five hectares has decli…
South Africa in African agriculture
Le capital agraire et entrepreneurial de l’Afrique du Sud investit aujourd’hui dans l’agriculture de 28 pays africains, à travers les exportations de ses agriculteurs, son agroindustrie en amont et en aval, et son expertise technique et de gestion. Ces investissements sont souvent soutenus par le gouvernement sud-africain, à travers des traités bilatéraux d’investissement et des accords commerciaux préférentiels. Cet article présente, sur la base…
Agriculture as an asset class
Africa's Land Rush
Migrations et stratégies des familles mozambicaines
Dans le contexte démo-économique mozambicain et de libéralisation postapartheid, l’évolution des stratégies des familles rurales vers des systèmes d’activités composites et l’importance des migrations de travail soulignent les enjeux des transformations socioéconomiques des communautés rurales d’origine. À partir du cas de la localité de Leonzoane située dans la région sud, cet article montre que les migrations de travail des familles sont un élé…
The rush for land in Africa
The article details features and implications of the global land rush, with \nparticular focus on Africa. Data and analyses of the ‘Land Matrix’ project help to \nprovide an overview of these land-based investments, while locally implemented \ncase studies in the framework of the ‘Commercial Pressures on Land’ project \nfacilitate the assessment of implications related (or not) to the question of Africa’s \ngreen revolution. By emphasising the ne…
Creating a public tool to assess and promote transparency in global land deals
The Beta version of the Land Matrix (Land Matrix 2012) was launched in April 2012 as \na tool to promote public participation in building a constantly evolving database on \nlarge-scale land deals, and making the data visible and understandable. The aim of \nthe Land Matrix partnership is to promote transparency and open data in decisionmaking \nover land and investment, as a step towards greater accountability. Since its \nlaunch, the Land Matri…
Le temps de la Chine en Afrique
Les modèles familiaux de production agricole en question. Comprendre leur diversité et leur fonctionnement
Les transformations des agricultures familiales interrogent le monde académique et les politiques. Cette interrogation traverse l’histoire des représentations de l’agriculture depuis un siècle. Les manières de voir les agricultures ont accompagné ces transformations. Aujourd’hui, l’agriculture familiale acquiert une légitimité internationale mais elle est questionnée par les évolutions des agricultures au Nord comme aux Suds. Le cadre Sustainable…
Nouveaux modèles de production et d'investissement en Afrique du Sud
Quinze ans après une première réforme agraire liée à la fin de l'apartheid, le secteur agricole sud-africain connaît une restructuration caractérisée par l'apparition de nouveaux modèles de production et de financement. Ces nouveaux modèles résultent de l'engagement plus soutenu d'une catégorie d'acteurs étrangers au secteur agricole traditionnel (banques commerciales, entreprises d'ingénierie agricole, sociétés de gestion d'actifs, fonds d'inves…
La libéralisation agricole post-apartheid en Afrique du Sud
Au lendemain de l’apartheid, le secteur agricole sud-africain a connu un processus de dérégulation sans précédent. Cette libéralisation agricole se traduit par la montée en puissance de « macro-acteurs » – entre autres des banques commerciales (ABSA, Standard), des entreprises d’ingénierie agricole et des fonds d’investissement. De nouveaux modèles de production et de financement apparaissent. On observe une mainmise par quelques macro-acteurs (s…
Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa
Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa provides a novel framework for understanding the inherent volatility of the politics of land in contemporary Southern Africa. The link between the established political economy of settler colonialism, the rote of liberation politics and the enduring impact of the transition to democracy in Southern Africa, key factors inhibiting attempts to embark on substantive agrarian reform after independence…
Great Expectations
The end of apartheid created great expectations for the majority of South Africans in terms of political, but also social and economic change. At first glance, significant progress has undoubtedly taken place, beginning with the adoption of a very progressive Constitution and legislation protecting civil, economic and social rights. However, 15 years into democracy, after a fourth free general election, many feel that their expectations have not …
Le paradoxe sud-africain
On ne peut rester insensible au progrès que représente, dans l'Afrique du Sud post-apartheid, l'adoption d'une Constitution et d'une législation très progressistes, à la pointe de la protection des droits civils, économiques et sociaux. L'analyse de l'évolution des conditions de travail au sein de trois secteurs (mines, foresterie et agriculture) indique cependant une précarisation accrue des statuts et situations des travailleurs. Le paradoxe es…
Creating a public tool to assess and promote transparency in global land deals
The Beta version of the Land Matrix (Land Matrix 2012) was launched in April 2012 as \na tool to promote public participation in building a constantly evolving database on \nlarge-scale land deals, and making the data visible and understandable. The aim of \nthe Land Matrix partnership is to promote transparency and open data in decisionmaking \nover land and investment, as a step towards greater accountability. Since its \nlaunch, the Land Matri…
Agriculture as an asset class
Great Expectations
The end of apartheid created great expectations for the majority of South Africans in terms of political, but also social and economic change. At first glance, significant progress has undoubtedly taken place, beginning with the adoption of a very progressive Constitution and legislation protecting civil, economic and social rights. However, 15 years into democracy, after a fourth free general election, many feel that their expectations have not …
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya
We study smallholder households livelihood profiles in central Kenya in an area characterized by the presence of many large commercial farms. We surveyed 375 smallholder households, compared them according to three categories (employed, contract farmers, households non-engaged with commercial farms), and constructed a livelihood index. The results show that contract farmers and households employed on farms are only a small fraction of all smallho…
Facing financialization
This paper analyses the transformation of the South African (former) grain cooperatives since 1994. These entities played a key role in the institutional architecture of the apartheid regime, ensuring the domination of white commercial farmers over the sector. Within the framework of the deregulation of the economy and the agricultural sector, such entities faced transformations of modern capitalism, especially the growing power of financial acto…
Migration and resilience of rural households' livelihoods in the face of changing political and economic contexts
This article investigates how labour migrations of rural households from Leonzoane in Southern Mozambique have changed since the colonial period to a post-war (1992) and post-apartheid (1994) context and their links with livelihoods restructuring. It draws on a qualitative analysis of the features of labour migrations, through a sample of households on five generations. Results reveal the evolution of men's forms of mobility from longstanding cir…
The rush for land in Africa
The article details features and implications of the global land rush, with \nparticular focus on Africa. Data and analyses of the ‘Land Matrix’ project help to \nprovide an overview of these land-based investments, while locally implemented \ncase studies in the framework of the ‘Commercial Pressures on Land’ project \nfacilitate the assessment of implications related (or not) to the question of Africa’s \ngreen revolution. By emphasising the ne…
Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique
Oberlack, C., M. Giger, W. Anseeuw, C. Adelle, M. Bourblanc, P. Burnod, S. Eckert, W. Fitawek, E. Fouilleux, S. L. Hendriks, B. Kiteme, L. Masola, Z. Mawoko, S. Mercandalli, A. Reys, M. da Silva, M. van der Laan, J. G. Zaehringer, and P. Messerli. 2021. Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Ecology and Society 26(4):18…
Large agricultural investments in Kenya’s Nanyuki Area
Nouveaux modèles de production et d'investissement en Afrique du Sud
Quinze ans après une première réforme agraire liée à la fin de l'apartheid, le secteur agricole sud-africain connaît une restructuration caractérisée par l'apparition de nouveaux modèles de production et de financement. Ces nouveaux modèles résultent de l'engagement plus soutenu d'une catégorie d'acteurs étrangers au secteur agricole traditionnel (banques commerciales, entreprises d'ingénierie agricole, sociétés de gestion d'actifs, fonds d'inves…
La libéralisation agricole post-apartheid en Afrique du Sud
Au lendemain de l’apartheid, le secteur agricole sud-africain a connu un processus de dérégulation sans précédent. Cette libéralisation agricole se traduit par la montée en puissance de « macro-acteurs » – entre autres des banques commerciales (ABSA, Standard), des entreprises d’ingénierie agricole et des fonds d’investissement. De nouveaux modèles de production et de financement apparaissent. On observe une mainmise par quelques macro-acteurs (s…
Le paradoxe sud-africain
On ne peut rester insensible au progrès que représente, dans l'Afrique du Sud post-apartheid, l'adoption d'une Constitution et d'une législation très progressistes, à la pointe de la protection des droits civils, économiques et sociaux. L'analyse de l'évolution des conditions de travail au sein de trois secteurs (mines, foresterie et agriculture) indique cependant une précarisation accrue des statuts et situations des travailleurs. Le paradoxe es…
Pushing accountability boundaries for transnational land investments
Land deals worldwide persist in reinforcing the dispossession of traditional communities, facilitating the transfer of public lands to private entities, and contributing to violence. Land control remains opaque and financial capital shows a growing interest in land as an 'alternative asset'. A prevailing trend in land investments is the anonymity of ultimate beneficiaries and major investors within these corporate and financial firms. Merging obs…
Explaining South Africa’s land reform policy failure through its instruments
This paper seeks to explain the emergence of South African inclusive agricultural business models in relation to the land reform policy. We demonstrate that in South Africa such policy instruments linking small-scale and large-scale farmers respond to endogenous dynamics linked to the failure of its land reform policy. We study the land reform policy change induced by its policy instruments. Indeed, introducing the market as the preferred means t…
Migrations et stratégies des familles mozambicaines
Dans le contexte démo-économique mozambicain et de libéralisation postapartheid, l’évolution des stratégies des familles rurales vers des systèmes d’activités composites et l’importance des migrations de travail soulignent les enjeux des transformations socioéconomiques des communautés rurales d’origine. À partir du cas de la localité de Leonzoane située dans la région sud, cet article montre que les migrations de travail des familles sont un élé…
Le paradoxe sud-africain
On ne peut rester insensible au progrès que représente, dans l'Afrique du Sud post-apartheid, l'adoption d'une Constitution et d'une législation très progressistes, à la pointe de la protection des droits civils, économiques et sociaux. L'analyse de l'évolution des conditions de travail au sein de trois secteurs (mines, foresterie et agriculture) indique cependant une précarisation accrue des statuts et situations des travailleurs. Le paradoxe es…
Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa
Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa provides a novel framework for understanding the inherent volatility of the politics of land in contemporary Southern Africa. The link between the established political economy of settler colonialism, the rote of liberation politics and the enduring impact of the transition to democracy in Southern Africa, key factors inhibiting attempts to embark on substantive agrarian reform after independence…
Great Expectations
The end of apartheid created great expectations for the majority of South Africans in terms of political, but also social and economic change. At first glance, significant progress has undoubtedly taken place, beginning with the adoption of a very progressive Constitution and legislation protecting civil, economic and social rights. However, 15 years into democracy, after a fourth free general election, many feel that their expectations have not …
La libéralisation agricole post-apartheid en Afrique du Sud
Au lendemain de l’apartheid, le secteur agricole sud-africain a connu un processus de dérégulation sans précédent. Cette libéralisation agricole se traduit par la montée en puissance de « macro-acteurs » – entre autres des banques commerciales (ABSA, Standard), des entreprises d’ingénierie agricole et des fonds d’investissement. De nouveaux modèles de production et de financement apparaissent. On observe une mainmise par quelques macro-acteurs (s…
Le temps de la Chine en Afrique
Les modèles familiaux de production agricole en question. Comprendre leur diversité et leur fonctionnement
Les transformations des agricultures familiales interrogent le monde académique et les politiques. Cette interrogation traverse l’histoire des représentations de l’agriculture depuis un siècle. Les manières de voir les agricultures ont accompagné ces transformations. Aujourd’hui, l’agriculture familiale acquiert une légitimité internationale mais elle est questionnée par les évolutions des agricultures au Nord comme aux Suds. Le cadre Sustainable…
Nouveaux modèles de production et d'investissement en Afrique du Sud
Quinze ans après une première réforme agraire liée à la fin de l'apartheid, le secteur agricole sud-africain connaît une restructuration caractérisée par l'apparition de nouveaux modèles de production et de financement. Ces nouveaux modèles résultent de l'engagement plus soutenu d'une catégorie d'acteurs étrangers au secteur agricole traditionnel (banques commerciales, entreprises d'ingénierie agricole, sociétés de gestion d'actifs, fonds d'inves…
The rush for land in Africa
The article details features and implications of the global land rush, with \nparticular focus on Africa. Data and analyses of the ‘Land Matrix’ project help to \nprovide an overview of these land-based investments, while locally implemented \ncase studies in the framework of the ‘Commercial Pressures on Land’ project \nfacilitate the assessment of implications related (or not) to the question of Africa’s \ngreen revolution. By emphasising the ne…
Creating a public tool to assess and promote transparency in global land deals
The Beta version of the Land Matrix (Land Matrix 2012) was launched in April 2012 as \na tool to promote public participation in building a constantly evolving database on \nlarge-scale land deals, and making the data visible and understandable. The aim of \nthe Land Matrix partnership is to promote transparency and open data in decisionmaking \nover land and investment, as a step towards greater accountability. Since its \nlaunch, the Land Matri…
Migrations et stratégies des familles mozambicaines
Dans le contexte démo-économique mozambicain et de libéralisation postapartheid, l’évolution des stratégies des familles rurales vers des systèmes d’activités composites et l’importance des migrations de travail soulignent les enjeux des transformations socioéconomiques des communautés rurales d’origine. À partir du cas de la localité de Leonzoane située dans la région sud, cet article montre que les migrations de travail des familles sont un élé…
Africa's Land Rush
Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns
This study assesses changes over the past decade in the farm size distributions of Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, drawing on two or more waves of nationally representative population‐based and/or area‐based surveys. Analysis indicates that much of Sub‐Saharan Africa is experiencing major changes in farm land ownership patterns. Among all farms below 100 hectares in size, the share of land on small‐scale holdings under five hectares has decli…
South Africa in African agriculture
Le capital agraire et entrepreneurial de l’Afrique du Sud investit aujourd’hui dans l’agriculture de 28 pays africains, à travers les exportations de ses agriculteurs, son agroindustrie en amont et en aval, et son expertise technique et de gestion. Ces investissements sont souvent soutenus par le gouvernement sud-africain, à travers des traités bilatéraux d’investissement et des accords commerciaux préférentiels. Cet article présente, sur la base…
Agriculture as an asset class
Financer le développement agricole en Afrique du Sud
Le secteur agricole revêt en Afrique du Sud un caractère stratégique depuis le début du XX e siècle. Tout à la fois rouage du système d'accumulation national centré sur les mines, réservoir de voix pour le Parti national pendant l'apartheid et enjeu majeur de la transformation économique et sociale postapartheid, l'agriculture a fait l'objet d'une attention particulière de la part des gouvernements successifs. À ce titre, l'État a mis en place de…
Migration and resilience of rural households' livelihoods in the face of changing political and economic contexts
This article investigates how labour migrations of rural households from Leonzoane in Southern Mozambique have changed since the colonial period to a post-war (1992) and post-apartheid (1994) context and their links with livelihoods restructuring. It draws on a qualitative analysis of the features of labour migrations, through a sample of households on five generations. Results reveal the evolution of men's forms of mobility from longstanding cir…
Facing financialization
This paper analyses the transformation of the South African (former) grain cooperatives since 1994. These entities played a key role in the institutional architecture of the apartheid regime, ensuring the domination of white commercial farmers over the sector. Within the framework of the deregulation of the economy and the agricultural sector, such entities faced transformations of modern capitalism, especially the growing power of financial acto…
Explaining South Africa’s land reform policy failure through its instruments
This paper seeks to explain the emergence of South African inclusive agricultural business models in relation to the land reform policy. We demonstrate that in South Africa such policy instruments linking small-scale and large-scale farmers respond to endogenous dynamics linked to the failure of its land reform policy. We study the land reform policy change induced by its policy instruments. Indeed, introducing the market as the preferred means t…
Large agricultural investments in Kenya’s Nanyuki Area
Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique
Oberlack, C., M. Giger, W. Anseeuw, C. Adelle, M. Bourblanc, P. Burnod, S. Eckert, W. Fitawek, E. Fouilleux, S. L. Hendriks, B. Kiteme, L. Masola, Z. Mawoko, S. Mercandalli, A. Reys, M. da Silva, M. van der Laan, J. G. Zaehringer, and P. Messerli. 2021. Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Ecology and Society 26(4):18…
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya
We study smallholder households livelihood profiles in central Kenya in an area characterized by the presence of many large commercial farms. We surveyed 375 smallholder households, compared them according to three categories (employed, contract farmers, households non-engaged with commercial farms), and constructed a livelihood index. The results show that contract farmers and households employed on farms are only a small fraction of all smallho…
Pushing accountability boundaries for transnational land investments
Land deals worldwide persist in reinforcing the dispossession of traditional communities, facilitating the transfer of public lands to private entities, and contributing to violence. Land control remains opaque and financial capital shows a growing interest in land as an 'alternative asset'. A prevailing trend in land investments is the anonymity of ultimate beneficiaries and major investors within these corporate and financial firms. Merging obs…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (11 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Humanities (7 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (5 works)