Work

Climate change and land grab in Africa: resilience for whom?

Year: 2012

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Millions of hectares of African land are currently being purchased or leased on the long term, as part of large-scale strategies by countries to secure food in the future and also to engage in the production of biofuel. The scale of these acquisitions is unprecedented since the colonial era, and is likely to have major regional, national, and global consequences. Many current land grabs are legitimated by a discourse that relies heavily on global warming and expectations of climate change, yet such strategies for coping with the effects of change reduce the resilience of local farmers and risk contributing to a new era of rural–rural and rural–urban migration. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies from four African countries, this chapter explores past mistakes as well as experience gained through successful agricultural projects that helped small-scale farmers to cope with change.

Source: Cambridge University Press eBooks

Parent work: Climate Change and Human Mobility: Challenges to the Social Sciences

DOI: 10.1017/cbo9781139235815.014

Authors: Quentin Gausset, Michael Whyte

Institution: University of Copenhagen

Language: English

Topic: Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Life on land, Zero hunger

Open Access status: green