Land deals, and how not all states react the same
Zambia and the Chinese request
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie Widengård (0000-0002-2273-6276, University of Gothenburg, 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 | 10.1080/03056244.2019.1614551 |
| OpenAlex | W2969724662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
The global land rush has drawn new attention to the African state. Governments have generally been accused of brokering deals that are assumed to negatively affect local people. This framing contributes to an image that all states react in the same way, ignoring that states and customary rulers still covet control over land. By drawing on a Chinese land request for 2 million hectares in Zambia, the article argues that processes of land acquisition are deeply influenced by the shifting politics and policies within the respective country, specifically since a change of government changed the dynamics of the deal
Development economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · International Development and Aid · Land Rights and Reforms
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Kaunda and Southern Africa
Geography and resource nationalism
Biofuel Investments in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Dealing Land in the Midst of Poverty
Africa’s Land Rush and the Embedded Neoliberal State
Land Grabs Today
Contemporary Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Copper Mining Agreements in Zambia
Political graft and the spoils system in Zambia — the state as a resource in itself
How and why chiefs formalise land use in recent times
Land grabbing in Southern Africa
The accumulation of dispossession
Large-scale agricultural investments under poor land governance in Zambia
A view from the top
Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions ‘From Below’
Cycles of Land Grabbing in Central America
Beyond land grabbing. Old morals and new perspectives on contemporary investments
When Politicians Cede Control of Resources
Of cabbages and King Cobra
Asian Land Acquisitions in Africa
Indirect Dispossession
Governing Global Land Deals
Competition over Authority and Access
Between dependence and deprivation
Globalisation and the foreignisation of space
Resistance or participation? Fighting against corporate land access amid political uncertainty in Madagascar
Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Fragmented sovereignty
Centering labor in the land grab debate
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |