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Abstract
This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa. Featuring chapters and in-depth case studies on South Africa and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana and West Africa, it traces the development of ideas about sustainable development and addresses a new agenda based on social justice.
The authors critically examine contemporary neoliberal market-led reforms and the legacy of colonialism on the land question. They argue that debates on sustainable development should be placed in the context of structural interests, access and equity, rather than technical management of land and resources. Additionally, they show that these structural factors cannot be transformed by institutional reform based on notions of elective democracy, community participation, and market-reform, but require a far more radical programme to redress the injustices of the colonial system that continue today. The book advocates a commitment to building sustainable livelihoods for farmers, calling for a redistribution of land and natural resources to challenge existing economic relations and frameworks for development.
Sam Moyo is the Executive Director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has more than 25 years of research experience on rural development issues with a focus on land and natural resources management, civil society organizations, and capacity building and institutional development. He has been involved in several publications, including The Land Question in Zimbabwe, Land Reform Under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe, and African Land Questions, the State and Agrarian Transition.
Kojo Amanor is an Associate Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. His main research is on land, forestry, environmental management, and rural livelihoods. His publications include The New Frontier: Farmers responses to land degradation, Global restructuring and land rights in Ghana; Land labour and the Family in Southern Ghana. He is also co-editor of Cultivating Knowledge: Genetic diversity, farmer experimentation and crop research.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Cover | Front cover | ||
Contents | v | ||
Acknowledgements | ix | ||
Contributors | xi | ||
Introduction | 1 | ||
Defining Sustainable Development | 2 | ||
The Origins of Sustainable Development | 6 | ||
Neoliberal Perspectives on Land | 11 | ||
Land Redistribution and Markets | 15 | ||
Nature Tourism, Wildlife and Forest Management | 17 | ||
Civil Society and the Land Question | 18 | ||
Scope and Organisation of This Book | 22 | ||
Emerging Themes | 30 | ||
1. Land and Sustainable Development in South Africa | 33 | ||
Sustainable Development, Environment and Land Reform | 34 | ||
The Origins of the Land Question in South Africa | 35 | ||
Land Reform under the African National Congress | 37 | ||
Civil Society Initiatives for Land Reform | 47 | ||
Conclusion | 52 | ||
2. Interrogating Sustainable Development and Resource Control in Zimbabwe | 55 | ||
Zimbabwean Debates over Land and Sustainable Development | 55 | ||
Land Distribution and Equity Problems in Zimbabwe | 57 | ||
Macroeconomic Policies | 60 | ||
Agriculture, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development | 64 | ||
Land as an Overarching Resource for Sustainable Development | 65 | ||
Forests and Sustainable Development | 68 | ||
Wildlife | 70 | ||
Popular Struggles for Land | 73 | ||
Fast Track Land Reform and Sustainable Development | 77 | ||
Conclusion | 79 | ||
Notes | 81 | ||
3. Law, Land and Sustainable Development in Malawi | 83 | ||
Land and Sustainable Development in Malawi | 84 | ||
Critical Variables in Land | 85 | ||
Land Law Reform and Sustainable Development | 87 | ||
Limitations of Land Law | 94 | ||
Prospects for Land Reform and Sustainable Development | 96 | ||
Conclusion | 99 | ||
4. The Struggle for Sustainable Land Management and Democratic Development in Kenya | 100 | ||
Land Expropriation, Colonial Law and Native Reserves | 101 | ||
African Agriculture and Land Tenure Reform | 104 | ||
Politics of Land, Uhuru and After: The Political Impasse | 108 | ||
The Kenyatta Regime: Freezing the Land Question | 112 | ||
The Moi Regime: Thawing the Land Question | 114 | ||
Political Patronage, Land Grabbing and Livelihood Struggles | 115 | ||
The Kibaki Regime: Moving the Land Question Around the Circle | 120 | ||
Conclusion | 123 | ||
Notes | 126 | ||
5. Sustainable Development, Corporate Accumulation and Community Expropriation: Land and Natural Resources in West Africa | 127 | ||
Colonial Land Policies in West Africa | 130 | ||
Post-colonial Developments and Their Impact on Land | 134 | ||
Export Crop Frontiers | 137 | ||
Agricultural Modernisation and Agribusiness | 141 | ||
Community Forestry | 146 | ||
Minerals | 151 | ||
The Role of Civil Society | 156 | ||
Conclusion | 157 | ||
Notes | 158 | ||
6. Sustainable Development, Ecotourism, National Minorities and Land in Botswana | 159 | ||
Land Tenure and Administration in Botswana | 160 | ||
Land and Ethnicity | 164 | ||
Agriculture and Land Reform | 166 | ||
Land, Nature Tourism and Expropriation | 168 | ||
Popular Struggles for Land and Sustainable Livelihoods | 179 | ||
Conclusion | 180 | ||
Notes | 181 | ||
Conclusion: Transforming Sustainable Development | 184 | ||
Land Markets, Redistribution and Civil Society | 186 | ||
From Technical Management to Social Justice | 190 | ||
Communitarian Approaches | 193 | ||
The Challenge | 195 | ||
Notes | 197 | ||
Select Bibliography | 198 | ||
Index | 217 |