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Africa for Sale? For use by the Author only | © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV Afrika-Studiecentrum Series Editorial Board Dr Piet Konings (African Studies Centre, Leiden) Dr Paul Mathieu (FAO-SDAA, Rome) Prof. Deborah Posel (University of Cape Town) Prof. Nicolas van de Walle (Cornell University, USA) Dr Ruth Watson (Newnham College, Cambridge) VOLUME 29 • The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/asc For use by the Author only | © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV Africa for Sale? Positioning the State, Land and Society in Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa Edited by Sandra J.T.M. Evers Caroline Seagle Froukje Krijtenburg LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013 For use by the Author only | © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV Cover illustration: Mountains behind Ampasy Nahampoana, Southeast Madagascar, © C. Seagle. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Africa for sale? : positioning the state, land and society in foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa / edited by Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Caroline Seagle, Froukje Krijtenburg. p. cm. — (Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 29) ISBN 978-90-04-25193-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-25264-6 (e-book) 1. Land use, Rural— Africa. 2. Real property—Foreign ownership—Africa. 3. Farm ownership—Africa. 4. Investments, Foreign—Africa. I. Evers, Sandra. II. Seagle, Caroline. III. Krijtenburg, Froukje, 1956- IV. Series: Afrika- Studiecentrum series ; v. 29. HD966.A34 2013 333.3096—dc23 2013011078 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. 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For use by the Author only | © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV CONTENTS List of Illustrations ........................................................................................... vii List of Contributors ......................................................................................... ix Introduction: Contested Landscapes—Analysing the Role of the State, Land Reforms and Privatization in Foreign Land Deals in Africa ............................................................................................................... 1 Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Caroline Seagle and Froukje Krijtenburg SECTION 1 THE RECONFIGURATION OF RURAL LANDSCAPES AND LIVELIHOODS IN THE RECENT SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICAN LAND Corporate Land Deals, Dispossession and the Future of Farming ... 37 Ben White A Critical Review of the Policy Debate on Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Fighting the Symptoms or Killing the Heart? .......... 55 Annelies Zoomers Challenges and Risks for Bilateral Relations from Foreign Large-Scale Land Transactions ................................................................ 79 Michael J. Strauss SECTION 2 THE CREATION OF FERTILE GROUND FOR THE STRUCTURING OF FOREIGN LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS: LAND REFORMS, PRIVATIZATION AND COMPETING JURISDICTIONS Land Consolidation and the Expansion of Game Farming in South Africa: Impacts on Farm Dwellers’ Livelihoods and Rights to Land in the Eastern Cape ......................................................................... 97 Nancy Andrew, Femke Brandt, Marja Spierenburg, Dhoya Snijders and Nomalanga Mkhize For use by the Author only | © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV vi contents Development and Dispossession: Impacts of Land Reform in Botswana ........................................................................................................ 131 Maria Sapignoli and Robert K. Hitchcock Domestic and Foreign Investments in Irrigable Land in Mali: Tensions between the Dream of Large-Scale Farming and the Reality of Family Farming ........................................................................ 159 Amandine Adamczewski, Perrine Burnod, Hermine Papazian, Yacouba Coulibaly, Jean-Philippe Tonneau and Jean-Yves Jamin Conflict between Industrial and Artisanal Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Case Studies from Katanga, Ituri and Kivu ............................................................................. 181 Ruben de Koning SECTION 3 STAKEHOLDER INTERACTIONS AND COMPETING VALUATIONS OF LAND Shifting Patterns of Land Use and Ownership in Burkina Faso with a Case Study of Two Kurumba Villages—Bourzanga and Pobe-Mengao ................................................................................................ 203 Lucjan Buchalik Being a Foreigner in One’s Country: Mobility, Land Acquisitions and Investments in Cameroon ................................................................ 221 Evelyne N. Tegomoh Ancestors and Title Deeds: Rural Transformation in 20th Century South Africa and the Consolidation of Ethnic-Based Identities ... 237 Gitte Postel Competing Rhetoric in the Context of Foreign Land Acquisitions: The Case of ‘New Nigeria’ ......................................................................... 259 Akachi Odoemene ‘Keeping this Land Safe’: Stakeholder Conceptualisations of Protection in the Context of a Mijikenda (Kenya) World Heritage Site ............. 275 Froukje Krijtenburg Index .................................................................................................................... 301 For use by the Author only | © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Andrew et al. Map 1. Karoo region (fijieldwork areas) Eastern Cape Province ................. 112 Sapignoli and Hitchcock Figures 1. Map of the Bechuanaland Protectorate .............................................. 134 2. Map of Botswana showing districts, major towns, protected areas, and remote area settlements ...................................................... 141 3. Map of Ghanzi District and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve ........................................................................................................... 144 4. Map of the Western Sandveld Region of Central District, Botswana showing the research area ................................................... 146 5. Map of Tribal Grazing Land Policy Ranches in the Western Sandveld Region of Central District ..................................................... 148 Tables 1. Land zoning categories in Botswana .................................................... 136 2. World Bank funded livestock development projects in Botswana ....................................................................................................... 140 3. Community trusts in Botswana’s North West District involved in ecotourism and integrated conservation and development activities ........................................................................................................ 151 Adamczewski et al. Figures 1. Crops planned by domestic and foreign investors (surface) ......... 166 2. Status of different land attributions in the ON area ....................... 167 For use by the Author only | © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV viii list of illustrations Tables 1. Main Malian investors ............................................................................... 163 2. Main foreign projects ................................................................................ 164 Map 1. Irrigated zones and future projects in the ON area ......................... 162 Buchalik Map 1. The area inhabited by the Kurumba .................................................... 204 For use by the Author only | © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Amandine Adamczewski is an agronomist graduated from INP-ENSAT (École nationale supérieure d’agronomie de Toulouse) and specialized in territorial and natural resource management. Currently a Ph.D. student at the CIRAD (Centre de coopération internationale de recherche agronomique pour le développement), UR Green (Gestion des Ressources renouvelables et Environnement), she is working on the (socio-economic and institutional) impacts of rural land and natural resource regulation policies in Sahelian countries. Nancy Andrew is Associate Researcher at the multidisciplinary centre Les Afriques dans le Monde (CNRS/Sciences-Po-Bordeaux). She recently com- pleted research for the NWO-WOTRO project on farm dwellers and pri- vate wildlife production in South Africa. Other publications and research areas include land reform and conflict, social and rural development, gen- der dimensions, food security, smallholder agriculture and globalization. Femke Brandt is a PhD candidate at VU University Amsterdam. In her dissertation she explores how farm dwellers and commercial farmers reconfijigure power and belonging in the Karoo in the context of private farm conversions to wildlife production for trophy hunting. She conducted ethnographic