The politics of land reform in Africa :
Manji, Ambreena S.
The politics of land reform in Africa : from communal tenure to free markets / Ambreena Manji. - London ; New York : Zed, 2006. - 149 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Creating a Network of Land Law Reform * The Impetus for Land Reform * Paying for Law: International Financial Institutions * Making Law: The Role of Technical Legal Consultants * Contesting Law? Civil Society Groups * Using Law: Commercial Lenders and the African Judiciary * Conclusion
Creating a Network of Land Law Reform * The Impetus for Land Reform * Paying for Law: International Financial Institutions * Making Law: The Role of Technical Legal Consultants * Contesting Law? Civil Society Groups * Using Law: Commercial Lenders and the African Judiciary * Conclusion.
This book examines the trend in Africa today to replace communal forms of customary tenure with Western-type private land tenure arrangements. These are markets in land that treat it as a commodity like any other, and forms of rural credit involving land as collateral. The author develops an aetiology of the main actors in this historic process which is already having huge human consequences. It is likely, if more widely implemented, to transform the face of African rural society towards landlessness, forced migration to big city slums, and rising inequality.
1842774956 (pbk.) 9781842774953 (pbk.) 1842774948 (hbk.) 9781842774946 (hbk.)
2006045280
GBA646707 bnb
013464883 Uk
Land reform--Africa.
HD1333.A35 / M36 2006
333.316 MAN / 011936
The politics of land reform in Africa : from communal tenure to free markets / Ambreena Manji. - London ; New York : Zed, 2006. - 149 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Creating a Network of Land Law Reform * The Impetus for Land Reform * Paying for Law: International Financial Institutions * Making Law: The Role of Technical Legal Consultants * Contesting Law? Civil Society Groups * Using Law: Commercial Lenders and the African Judiciary * Conclusion
Creating a Network of Land Law Reform * The Impetus for Land Reform * Paying for Law: International Financial Institutions * Making Law: The Role of Technical Legal Consultants * Contesting Law? Civil Society Groups * Using Law: Commercial Lenders and the African Judiciary * Conclusion.
This book examines the trend in Africa today to replace communal forms of customary tenure with Western-type private land tenure arrangements. These are markets in land that treat it as a commodity like any other, and forms of rural credit involving land as collateral. The author develops an aetiology of the main actors in this historic process which is already having huge human consequences. It is likely, if more widely implemented, to transform the face of African rural society towards landlessness, forced migration to big city slums, and rising inequality.
1842774956 (pbk.) 9781842774953 (pbk.) 1842774948 (hbk.) 9781842774946 (hbk.)
2006045280
GBA646707 bnb
013464883 Uk
Land reform--Africa.
HD1333.A35 / M36 2006
333.316 MAN / 011936