An Ansoms, Thea Hilhorst

Examines a fresh aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today - land-grabbing - and shows just how widespread the impact of small-scale dispossession is, how it coalesces with local power dynamics, resulting in the disruption of people's lives and threatening their continuing welfare and stability.

Introduction: Causes and risks of dispossession and land grabbing in the Great Lakes region - An AnsomsIntroduction: Causes and risks of dispossession and land grabbing in the Great Lakes region - Thea HilhorstLand grabbing and development history: The Congolese experience - Jean-Philippe PeemansThis land is my land: Land grabbing in Ituri (DRC) - Daniel FaheyLand grabbing by mining companies: Local contentions and state reconfiguration in South-Kivu (DRC) - Sara GeenenLand grabbing by mining companies: Local contentions and state reconfiguration in South-Kivu (DRC) - Jana HönkeCompetition over soil and subsoil: Land grabbing by local elites in South Kivu (Eastern DRC) - Klara ClaessensCompetition over soil and subsoil: Land grabbing by local elites in South Kivu (Eastern DRC) - Emery Mushagalusa MudingaCompetition over soil and subsoil: Land grabbing by local elites in South Kivu (Eastern DRC) - An AnsomsThe continuities in contested land acquisitions in Uganda by Mathijs van Leeuwen, Ilse Zeemeijer, Doreen Kobusingye, Charles Muchunguzi, Linda Haartsen and Claudia PiacenzaLand grabbing and power relations in Burundi: Practical norms and real governance - Aymar NyenyeziLand grabbing and power relations in Burundi: Practical norms and real governance - An AnsomsLand grabbing and land tenure security in post-genocide Rwanda - Chris HugginsThe reorganization of rural space in Rwanda: Habitat concentration, land consolidation and collective marshland cultivation by An Ansoms, Giuseppe Cioffo, Chris Huggins and Jude Murison"Modernizing Kigali": The struggle for space in the Rwandan urban context - Vincent Manirakiza and An AnsomsConclusion - An Ansoms and Thea Hilhorst

Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession.