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Losing Your Land : Dispossession in the Great Lakes by An Ansoms; Klara Claessens; Sara Geenen; Thea Hilhorst; Vincent Manirakiza; Thea Hilhorst; An Ansoms; Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka; Chris Huggins; Daniel Fahey; Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga; Jana Hönke; Jean-Philippe Peemans is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.Dispossession of land on a small scale can have as great an impact on living conditions as large-scale land-grabs. With the increasing commodification of land, new forms of dispossession, in urban as well as rural districts, are also gaining in importance. This book looks at this largely uninvestigated issue through case studies in the Eastern DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda: here the loss of land often represents the loss of people's livelihoods inthese areas of extreme land scarcity in highly populated regions. In the post-conflict states of the Great Lakes, governance challenges increase the risk of dispossession of the already poor and vulnerable: formal institutions are weak or biased; customary authorities have lost some of their moral authority. The cases in this book show in particular how local power dynamics, often rooted in history, bear upon the processes of land competition, dispossession and land grabbing. This timely volume will be important not only for those in African Studies, but for those in development studies

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Author

An Ansoms; Klara Claessens; Sara Geenen; Thea Hilhorst; Vincent Manirakiza; Thea Hilhorst; An Ansoms; Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka; Chris Huggins; Daniel Fahey; Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga; Jana Hönke; Jean-Philippe Peemans

Publisher

Boydell and Brewer Limited

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782043416

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Business, Political Science