Drawing their power not from the ballot box but from a supposedly ancient wellspring of
power, hereditary traditional authorities in postcolonial Africa have frequently posed …

This paper explores the 'emerging forms of spatialised and socialised authority'adopted by
tenure-insecure peri-urbanites to secure coveted land in African peri-urban spaces. The …

The world development institutions commonly present'urban governance'as an antidote to
the so-called'urbanisation of poverty'and'parasitic urbanism'in Africa. Governance for Pro …

The potential impacts of extractive industries on local food security are difficult to predict. On
the one hand, resource extraction may generate more employment opportunities, provide …

This paper looks at how large-scale land acquisitions made by foreign investors in Zambia
are implemented. It scrutinizes both the steps that an investor has to go through in order to …

This paper discusses the emergent properties of deagrarianisation processes in two villages
in the central Eastern Cape, South Africa. The claim of is that much of the deagrarianisation …

The paper deals with the drivers influencing smallholder farmers' access to local markets in
developing countries, assuming that collective actions along with food security and land …

Crisis narratives and populist representations of the woes of Africa abound. Civil society
organisations do not always help, as their activities continue to sustain a particularly …

The economic performance, through wildlife tourism, of African protected areas (PAs) varies
widely. Though proximal management level factors responsible for economic performance …

South Africa has historically perpetuated a dual system of freehold commercial and
communal subsistence farming. To bridge these extremes, agrarian reform policies have …