Africa for Sale?

Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors

Introduction: Contested Landscapes-Analysing the Role of the State, Land Reforms and Privatization in Foreign Land Deals in Africa
Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Caroline Seagle and Froukje Krijtenburg

SECTION 1
THE RECONFIGURATION OF RURAL LANDSCAPES AND LIVELIHOODS IN THE RECENT SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICAN LAND

Corporate Land Deals, Dispossession and the Future of Farming
Ben White

A Critical Review of the Policy Debate on Large Scale Land Acquisition: Fighting the Symptoms or Killing the Heart? Annelies Zoomers

Challenges and Risks for Bilateral Relations from Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
Michael J. Strauss

SECTION 2
THE CREATION OF FERTILE GROUND FOR THE STRUCTURING OF FOREIGN LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS: LAND REFORMS, PRIVATIZATION AND COMPETING JURISDICTIONS

Land Consolidation and the Expansion of Game Farming in South Africa: Impacts on Farm Dwellers' Livelihoods and Rights to Land in the Eastern Cape
Nancy Andrew, Femke Brandt, Marja Spierenburg, Dhoya Snijders and Nomalanga Mkhize

Development and Dispossession: Impacts of Land Reform in Botswana
Maria Sapignoli and Robert K. Hitchcock

Domestic and Foreign Investment in Irrigable Land in Mali: Tensions between the Dream of Large-Scale Farming and the Reality of Family Farming
Amandine Adamczewski, Perrine Burnod, Hermine Papazian, Yacouba Coulibaly, Jean-Philippe Tonneau and Jean-Yves Jamin

Conflict between Industrial and Artisanal Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Drc): Case Studies from
Katanga, Ituri and Kivu
Ruben de Koning

SECTION 3
STAKEHOLDER INTERACTIONS AND COMPETING VALUATIONS OF LAND

Shifting Patterns of Land Use and Ownership in Burkina Faso with a Case-Study of Two Kurumba Villages-Bourzanga and Pobe-Mengao
Lucjan Buchalik

Being a Foreigner in One's Country: Mobility, Land Acquisition and Investments in Cameroon
Evelyne N. Tegomoh

Ancestors and Title Deeds: Rural Transformation in