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Examines a fresh aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today - land-grabbing - and shows just how widespread the impact of small-scale dispossession is, how it coalesces with local power dynamics, resulting in the disruption of people's lives and threatening their continuing welfare and stability.
List of contents
Introduction: Causes and risks of dispossession and land grabbing in the Great Lakes region - An Ansoms
Introduction: Causes and risks of dispossession and land grabbing in the Great Lakes region - Thea Hilhorst
Land grabbing and development history: The Congolese experience - Jean-Philippe Peemans
This land is my land: Land grabbing in Ituri (DRC) - Daniel Fahey
Land grabbing by mining companies: Local contentions and state reconfiguration in South-Kivu (DRC) - Sara Geenen
Land grabbing by mining companies: Local contentions and state reconfiguration in South-Kivu (DRC) - Jana Hönke
Competition over soil and subsoil: Land grabbing by local elites in South Kivu (Eastern DRC) - Klara Claessens
Competition over soil and subsoil: Land grabbing by local elites in South Kivu (Eastern DRC) - Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga
Competition over soil and subsoil: Land grabbing by local elites in South Kivu (Eastern DRC) - An Ansoms
The continuities in contested land acquisitions in Uganda by Mathijs van Leeuwen, Ilse Zeemeijer, Doreen Kobusingye, Charles Muchunguzi, Linda Haartsen and Claudia Piacenza
Land grabbing and power relations in Burundi: Practical norms and real governance - Aymar Nyenyezi
Land grabbing and power relations in Burundi: Practical norms and real governance - An Ansoms
Land grabbing and land tenure security in post-genocide Rwanda - Chris Huggins
The reorganization of rural space in Rwanda: Habitat concentration, land consolidation and collective marshland cultivation by An Ansoms, Giuseppe Cioffo, Chris Huggins and Jude Murison
"Modernizing Kigali": The struggle for space in the Rwandan urban context - Vincent Manirakiza and An Ansoms
Conclusion - An Ansoms and Thea Hilhorst
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An Ansoms, Thea Hilhorst
Summary
Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession.