Land, Investment and Politics Reconfiguring East Africa`s Pastoral Drylands.

Lind Jeremy

Land, Investment and Politics Reconfiguring East Africa`s Pastoral Drylands. by Jeremy Lind; Doris Okenwa; Ian Scoones; - Boydell & Brewer, limited 2020. - 224 p.

Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands - Jeremy LindIntroduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands - Doris OkenwaIntroduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands - Ian ScoonesLocal Transformations of LAPSSET: Evidence from Lamu, Kenya - Ngala ChomeTown Making at the Gateway to Kenya's "New Frontier" - Hannah ElliottContentious Benefits & Subversive Oil Politics in Kenya - Doris OkenwaMeanings of Place & Struggles for Inclusion in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - James DrewConflict & Resistance around a Rice Development Scheme in the SAGCOT Area of Tanzania - Adriana BlacheHosting Refugees as an Investment in Development: Grand Designs versus Local Expectations in Turkana County, Kenya - Cory RodgersNegotiating Access to Land & Resources at the Geothermal Frontier in Baringo, Kenya - Clemens GreinerThe Berbera Corridor Development & Somaliland's Political Economy - Ahmed M. MusaState-building, Market Integration & Local Responses in South Omo, Ethiopia - Fana GebresenbetThe Impacts of Delay: Exploring a Failed Large-scale Agro-investment in Tanzania - Linda EngstroemTwilight Institutions: Land-buying Companies & their Long-term Implications in Laikipia, Kenya - Marie Ladekjaer GravesenFarmer-led Irrigation Investments: How Local Innovators are Transforming Failed Irrigation Schemes - Gregory AkallShifting Regimes of Violence within Ethiopia's Awash Valley Investment Frontier - Simone Rettberg

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Examines 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.

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