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Title:Land grabs, government, peasant and civil society activism in the Senegal River Valley
Author:Koopman, JeanneISNI
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]
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