The study employs an array of cross-disciplinary methodologies. These include the analysis of the available literature on global drivers and resource scarcity, multi-scale interviews and explore the perception of the local communities. Geo-referenced mapping draws on available datasets (Land...
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by Alice Kelly in 2013
This paper uses property as a lens of analysis to examine the transformation of Waza National Park in Northern Cameroon. The paper seeks to understand why local residents called for better guarding of the park, comments which go against much of the literature critical of exclusionary...
by E Kushinga Makombe in 2013
The history of the Save Valley in south‐eastern Manicaland provides an intriguing account of peasant encounters with the state apparatus dating back to the 1920s. However, the process currently underway, where an obscure 20‐year deal involving a public‐private partnership between the...
by Hussein M Sulieman in 2013
Grabbing of pastoralists’ traditional land to put it under the commercial farming system, which has widely been adopted as a development and investment strategy in Sudan, is creating a cruel dilemma of increasing both resource conflict and environmental degradation. This is one of the...
by Kan Liu in 2013
Tens of millions of Chinese peasants are in the process of being uprooted from their agricultural land and farmhouses, leaving them in the short run with few means to sustain their families. This study examines a very recent campaign in China to consolidate land for large‐scale commercial...