Land Relations and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region

An Ansoms and Klara Claessens

Chapter 1 in Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, 2011, pp 3-25 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In a context of globalisation and liberalisation, Africa is increasingly confronted with the commercialisation of its space. Various so-called large-scale actors — international private investors, ‘investor’ states, and local entrepreneurs — are searching for large quantities of land for the production of food crops or biofuels (Zoomers, 2010). At the same time, a large majority of the population rely upon agricultural activities — and thus access to land — for their main livelihood strategy. Moreover, the increasing demographic pressures have already resulted in increasing competition for land at the local level. The combination of these evolutions accumulates in a fierce clash in the land arena, where power relations clearly play to the advantage of large-scale, more powerful, and better-connected actors.

Keywords: Land Reform; Great Lake Region; Local Livelihood; Land Consolidation; Agrarian Reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230304994_1

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