Land, Investment & Politics: Reconfiguring Eastern by Jeremy Lind PAPERBACK

Land, Investment & PoliticsReconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands\nAuthor(s): Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa, Ian Scoones, Adriana Blache, Ahmed M. Musa, Clemens Greiner, Cory Rodgers, Doris Okenwa, Fana Gebresenbet, Gregory Akall\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: James Currey, United Kingdom\nImprint: James Currey\nISBN-13: 9781847012494, 978-1847012494\nSynopsis\nExamines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.\n\nMore than ever before, the gaze of global investment has been directed to the drylands of Africa, but what does this mean for these regions' pastoralists and other livestock-keepers and their livelihoods? Will those who have occupied drylands over generations benefit from the developments, as claimed, or is this a new type of territorialisation, exacerbating social inequality?\n This book's detailed local studies of inv.