Silent privatisation of customary land in Zambia: opportunities for a few, challenges for many

Chitonge, Horman; Mfune, Orleans; Umar, Bridget Bwalya; Kajoba, Gear M.; Banda, Diana; Ntsebeza, Lungisile

doi:10.1080/02533952.2017.1356049

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“…Following wider interests in Zambia's alleged abundance of "available" land (Chitonge et al 2017;Joala et al 2016;Matenga and Hichaambwa 2017), the European agribusiness purchased about 38,000 hectares of titled land in Zambia's Central Province, which was predominantly owned by absentee-landlords or only partially developed. Much of the land had to be cleared and infrastructure put in place when the com-pany initiated operations in 2012.…”

Section: On the (Zambian) Groundmentioning

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Multiscalar moral economy

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2021

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This article addresses the relevance of the moral economy concept in light of unequal socioeconomic relations between a European agribusiness and rural residents in Zambia. It argues that the moral economy concept offers a helpful heuristic device for analyzing how relationships are constituted, negotiated, and contested among interdependent actors with “opposing” socioeconomic interests. To explain the dynamics of their relationships, however, the moral economy concept has to extend beyond its usual, spatially restricted (i.e., local) focus. Instead, “external,” distant, non-local actors, such as foreign critics concerned about “land grabbing,” also influence the local character of moral-economic exchanges between the agribusiness and rural residents. Hence, the article proposes a multiscalar perspective to account for the influence of a wider array of actors.

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Section: On the (Zambian) Groundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiscalar moral economy

Salverda

2021

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“…Land administration and cadastral systems development are influenced by land policy and land-related theories. There appear to be two broad sides to debates around these theories [22,40] (summarized in Table 2 above). The replacement theorists support the substitution of customary land rights (living, uncodified customary law) with titles (official, codified customary law, possibly including collective freehold titles or records, or individual freehold or limited real rights titles or records) to ensure tenure security.…”

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“…To avoid confusion, and following the examples of Cotula [11], Lavigne Delville [20], and Chitonge et al [22], customary tenure is here preferred over communal or traditional tenure. This is to avoid the communal paradigm, with its colonial connotations, while highlighting that landholding is "regulated by local traditional institutions, based on customary norms and practices" [22] (p. 83) and that access to land is via "social norms and networks . .…”

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Theories of Land Reform and Their Impact on Land Reform Success in Southern Africa

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Babalola

Whittal

2019

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Our purpose is to present and test a typology of land reform theories as a means of understanding and interrogating the motives behind land reform and to better equip land administrators and policymakers to enact land reform programs that are appropriate for their contexts. Here, land reform is understood to include the related concepts of land redistribution, land restitution, land tenure reform and land administration reform. The theory typology thus has application for land restitution programs specifically operating in the global South. The continuum of theories is derived from literature and tested through a multiple case study of land reform in Nigeria, Mozambique, and South Africa, drawing from a combination of primary and secondary data. The findings suggest an over-reliance on replacement theories in all three contexts, although the Mozambican experience draws on theories towards the middle of the continuum (the adaptation theories). This is recommended as the most viable approach for the context.

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“…There are a number of global initiatives that have been developed to secure the rights of unregistered land owners through tenure formalisation programmes [28,30,31]. The Global Land Tool Network established in 2006 and overseen by UN Habitat includes over 75 organisations that are working toward stronger tenure security supporting Sustainable Development Goal 1.4.2 'directly tracking progress in strengthening tenure security' .…”

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What spatially explicit quantitative evidence exists that shows the effect of land tenure on illegal hunting of endangered terrestrial mammals in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic map protocol

2018

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Background: Over the last two decades there has been an increase in the demand for land in Sub Saharan Africa, particularly from foreign agribusiness investment to provide food for an increasing human population. The majority of land outside of protected areas in sub-Saharan Africa is under customary tenure. Due to poor land administration in the region, communities living in undocumented land areas tend to be at greater risk of eviction from increasing liberalisation of land markets. To prevent local displacement and disturbance to investment caused by land disputes tenure clarification is growing in importance on national and international agendas. Land conversion can fragment wildlife habitat while reducing the suitable range areas of terrestrial mammal populations on the continent. Simultaneously illegal hunting is on the rise for a wide variety of taxa driven by a demand for food and income from the sale of animal products. To enable a better understanding of how land tenure arrangements impact upon spatial variations in illegal hunting, this protocol sets out the parameters for an evidence map which will collate and analyse the spatially explicit quantitative evidence that exists showing the effect of land tenure on illegal hunting of endangered terrestrial mammals in sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region of focus as it contains the highest number of terrestrial mammals listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Taking stock of what methods have been used to gather data and where evidence exists can guide future research in this area while informing conservation interventions.Methods: This evidence map will compare: (1) data availability on the spatial distribution of illicit hunting of endangered terrestrial mammals across different land tenure regimes in sub-Saharan Africa; (2) research methodologies that have primarily been used to collect quantitative data on illegal hunting and comparability of existing data; (3) preferences in the research body toward particular taxa and geographical areas, (4) the evidence map will provide an analysis on the influence other environmental and anthropogenic determinants that influence the spatial distribution of illicit hunting incidences, e.g., proximity to roads, water bodies, range patrol bases etc. Eight academic databases and numerous organisation repositories will be searched for relevant studies by three authors. Double screening will be carried out on all articles to locate studies that meet the specified inclusion criteria, for inclusion studies must contain spatially explicit quantitative data on illegal hunting of endangered terrestrial mammals as defined by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Relevant information from studies will be extracted to a custom-made © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creat iveco mmons .org/licen ses/by/4.0/), which permits unre...

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Silent privatisation of customary land in Zambia: opportunities for a few, challenges for many

Cited by 30 publications

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Multiscalar moral economy

Multiscalar moral economy

Theories of Land Reform and Their Impact on Land Reform Success in Southern Africa

What spatially explicit quantitative evidence exists that shows the effect of land tenure on illegal hunting of endangered terrestrial mammals in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic map protocol

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