- 192 pages
- English
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About this book
After the global financial crisis of 2008, a new trend in foreign direct investments (FDI) emerged: investors' rising interest in farmland in developing nations. This 'land rush' was a marker of increased land commodification and agricultural financialization, but has also been associated with global narratives of agricultural modernization, and development through FDI of 'cheap, unproductive and/or idle' farmland.
Yet, as this book demonstrates, global investment dynamics are dictated by complex economic, political, socio-historical dynamics in any host country. Focusing on the land rush in Tanzania, the contexts of six investment projects in the nation are examined and unpacked, helping to understand the ways in which political struggles over land, capital and authority all feed into determining the goals - and eventually the outcomes - of the 'farmland investment game'.
Yet, as this book demonstrates, global investment dynamics are dictated by complex economic, political, socio-historical dynamics in any host country. Focusing on the land rush in Tanzania, the contexts of six investment projects in the nation are examined and unpacked, helping to understand the ways in which political struggles over land, capital and authority all feed into determining the goals - and eventually the outcomes - of the 'farmland investment game'.
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African PoliticsTable of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Tanzania map with regions and districts
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Land and development governmentality: The international scene
- 3 In brief, historical land management in Tanzania and factional struggles within the CCM
- 4 The national political arena. Land policies: Political tools to (re)assert state authority over land
- 5 Rufiji district, a local political arena. Assessing the role of state brokers
- 6 Missenyi district, a local political arena. The impact of protected domestic markets and clientelistic relations
- 7 Village politics, or a micro political arena. Negotiating inclusion by exclusion, or how to secure ‘eating’ from farmland investments
- 8 Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Imprint