Land, investment & politics : reconfiguring Eastern Africa's pastoral drylands /: reconfiguring Eastern Africa's pastoral drylands. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa & Ian Scoones.
• Editors: Lind, Jeremy; Okenwa, Doris; Scoones, Ian
• Contents: Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands -- Jeremy Lind; Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands -- Doris Okenwa; Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands -- Ian Scoones; Local Transformations of LAPSSET: Evidence from Lamu, Kenya -- Ngala Chome; Town Making at the Gateway to Kenya's "New Frontier" -- Hannah Elliott; Contentious Benefits & Subversive Oil Politics in Kenya -- Doris Okenwa; Meanings of Place & Struggles for Inclusion in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project -- James Drew; Conflict & Resistance around a Rice Development Scheme in the SAGCOT Area of Tanzania -- Adriana Blache; Hosting Refugees as an Investment in Development: Grand Designs versus Local Expectations in Turkana County, Kenya -- Cory Rodgers; Negotiating Access to Land & Resources at the Geothermal Frontier in Baringo, Kenya -- Clemens Greiner; The Berbera Corridor Development & Somaliland's Political Economy -- Ahmed M. Musa; State-building, Market Integration & Local Responses in South Omo, Ethiopia -- Fana Gebresenbet; The Impacts of Delay: Exploring a Failed Large-scale Agro-investment in Tanzania -- Linda Engström; Twilight Institutions: Land-buying Companies & their Long-term Implications in Laikipia, Kenya -- Marie Ladekjær Gravesen; Farmer-led Irrigation Investments: How Local Innovators are Transforming Failed Irrigation Schemes -- Gregory Akall; Shifting Regimes of Violence within Ethiopia's Awash Valley Investment Frontier -- Simone Rettberg
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 338.9676; Economic development -- Africa, East; Investments, Foreign -- Africa, East; Land use, Rural -- Africa, East; Arid regions -- Africa, East; Land rights; Development studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; Arid regions; Economic development; Investments, Foreign; Land use, Rural; Africa, East; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787449077; 1787449076
• Related ISBNs: 9781847012524; 1847012523; 9781847012494; 1847012493
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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