Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets

This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa

This book analyzes the new political economy of land reform in South Africa. It takes a holistic approach to understand South Africa’s land reform, assesses t

This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and

This book is an examination of post-colonial land reforms across various African states. One of the decisive contradictions of colonialism in Africa was the dis