Scholarship on African land markets has proliferated in recent years. We contend that this
scholarship consists of distinct literatures that examine non-overlapping parts of the system …

Is charcoal a sustainable energy source in Africa? This is a crucial question, given
charcoal's key importance to urban energy. In today's dominant policy narrative–the …

For many years, studies of peasants and pastoralists have run in parallel, creating mutual
blind-spots. This article argues that, despite contrasting research traditions and conceptual …

Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale,
avoid dispossessing local people of their land, promote diversified and sustainable …

A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this is
constituted in different places, one manifestation of the new moment is the rise of distinct …

Studies of accumulation by dispossession in the Global South tend to focus on individual
sectors, for example, large‐scale agriculture or nature conservation. Yet smallholder farmers …

This paper introduces a Special Section on Chinese and Brazilian engagements in African
agriculture. The paper asks if a new paradigm for development cooperation is emerging …

Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising
populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a …

Globalization, as described by Joseph Stiglitz in his books Globalization and its Discontents
and Making Globalization Work, draws on both pains and gains. These two seemingly …

In recent years, a great interest in the social dynamics of access to land and livelihoods
across Africa, especially that of youth, has emerged in the context of increased competing …