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Losing your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes
A Ansoms
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Description for Losing your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Ansoms, An; Hilhorst, Thea. Series: African Issues. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1HFJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
James Currey
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
339g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847011053
SKU
V9781847011053
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99-50
About A Ansoms
AN ANSOMS is Professor in Development Studies at the UniversitéCatholique de Louvain (Belgium). AN ANSOMS is Professor in Development Studies at the UniversitéCatholique de Louvain (Belgium). AYMAR NYENYEZI BISOKA is Assistant Professor at the University of Mons, Belgium.
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