Grabbing from below
A study of land reclamation in Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saker El Nour (0000-0002-7923-6272, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 162 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056244.2019.1755190 |
| OpenAlex | W3030525345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 22 |
The article questions state land commodification and the expansion of frontiers in land reclamation projects in Egypt. It does so by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the form of in-depth interviews and archival research on land tenure relations in Wadi Al-Nukra, Upper Egypt. In the article, actors and structure dynamics are situated in the wider political economy framework in order to guide both the data collection and the discussion surrounding the results. The key finding was that agricultural development in the desert created a particular class formation and resulted in specific land concentration. It did not lead to the hegemony of agribusiness nor to the success of desert agriculture in solving agrarian questions or issues relating to food security and population redistribution. The coexistence of different legal frameworks, development policies and discourses concerning allocation of state land, all of these coming from different backgrounds, has led to the concentration of property and to cronyism. It also reveals a deepening social differentiation and class formation. The land reclamation project in desert areas is increasingly moving towards an acceleration of the commodification of state land used for production, accumulation and speculation
Agriculture · Archaeology · Business · Economics · Geography · Land grabbing · Land reclamation · Natural resource economics · Political science · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Primitive Accumulation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Global Land Grab
The Egyptian Economy
Rule of Experts
Frontiers of Commodification
Desert land reclamation programs and family land dynamics in the Western Desert of the Nile Delta (Egypt), 1960–2010
Contemporary Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gulf capital and Egypt's corporate food system
The land grab, finance capital, and food regime restructuring
Land grabbing in Southern Africa
Land reclamation in Egypt
Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt
Politics, power and poverty
Patrimonialism and policy making in Egypt
Small farmers and the revolution in Egypt
Race for the Prize
Primitive Accumulation, New Enclosures, and Global Land Grabs
Inequality and Social Conflict Over Land in Africa
Telling Environmental Change Like It Is? Reflections on a Study in Sub-Saharan Africa
Challenges posed by the new wave of farmland investment
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |