Most of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is governed under various forms of customary tenure.
Over the past three decades a quiet paradigm shift has been taking place transforming the …

This article explains the assessment and conceptual framing of the Vulnerability Synthesis in
the Africa chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 6th …

Foreign investors have acquired approximately 90 million hectares of land for agriculture
over the past two decades. The effects of these investments on local food security remain …

Investments in large-scale land-based projects increased over the past two decades, with a
concomitant rise in community-level resistance. Drawing from data on resistance …

In this article, a framework is developed to empirically analyse conflicts over land in the
context of global crises. This framework aims to overcome the trap of a dichotomous and …

We review the literature on the distribution of farm sizes in sub-Saharan Africa, trends over
time, drivers of change in farm structure, and effects on agricultural transformation and …

Land acquisitions are transforming land-use systems globally, and their characteristics and
impacts on human well-being have been extensively analysed through local case studies …

Under-taxation has been a prominent feature of the global land rush, figuring centrally in
early concerns that transnational land deals constitute a new round of land grabbing rather …

In north-western Kenya, significant oil reserves have been discovered and the first oil trucks
have left Turkana County in June 2018. On the east side of Lake Turkana, the largest wind …

We examined the determinants of conflict among agro-pastoral households in areas affected
by large-scale land investments in Ethiopia. We combined household and community …