Africa's land rush: Rural livelihoods and agrarian change
本书汇集了关于非洲土地掠夺的实证案例研究，从政治经济学视角分析了尼日利亚、加纳、埃塞俄比亚等国的大规模土地交易，揭示其与全球驱动因素、地方制度及国家政治的复杂互动。
This collection of essays is the finest to be published on the broad debates of land grabbing in Africa. It covers empirically rich and diverse case studies. These are framed in an introduction of immense analytical heft that should be read by everyone who thinks they know what is often called in short hand the land grab in Africa. The books merit is that the authors of the case studies of Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi and Congo adopt a political economy perspective. As the editors note in the preface, extended to a powerful literature review in their introduction, they ‘were motivated by a conviction that large-scale land deals in Africa must be understood in terms of the economic interests that animate national politics, and that such investments – many of which did not materialise in practice – were best understood at the intersection of global drivers and local institutions, mediated through national politics and economy’ (p. xv).