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Title: | Land grabs, government, peasant and civil society activism in the Senegal River Valley |
Author: | Koopman, Jeanne |
Year: | 2012 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244) |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 134 |
Pages: | 655-664 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Senegal |
Subjects: | agricultural development land acquisition land conflicts farmers |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2012.738797 |
Abstract: | Following her briefing in the previous issue of ROAPE (vol. 39, no. 133, 2012, p. 500-511) the author's present contribution again uses evidence from Senegal to explore the interests and actions of major participants in the struggle to transform African agriculture: government, national elites, peasants and their civil society allies. In the first section she examines government motivations in facilitating land grabs; in the second she reviews a seminal land grab case in the Senegal River Valley that illustrates the growing sophistication of the peasant pushback and the emergence of an anti-land grab coalition between civil society and peasant organizations. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |