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African Land Questions, the State and Agrarian Transition: Contradictions of Neoliberal Land Reforms

Sam Moyo
Contact: sammoyo@ecoweb.co.zw

10 May 2004

This paper was presented at Codesria Conferences on Land Reform, the Agrarian Question and Nationalism in Gaborone and Dakar during 2003.
SARPN acknowledges the Codesria website as the source of this analysis.
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SARPN has received an updated version of the paper by Professor Sam Moyo, posted earlier on our website. If you accessed the earlier version you might like to read this final version. This version was posted in October 2004.


Table of contents

  1. Introduction

  2. Conceptual issues and perspectives on the land and agrarian question
    1. The land question in the era of neoliberal developmentalism
    2. The unique and diverse land questions of Africa


  3. African land Questions: Trends and Tendencies
    1. The land distribution question: trends and sources
    2. Unequal land rights, discriminatory tenure systems and land market concentration
    3. Agrarian 'transition' in Africa: land use patterns and distorted growth
    4. The African urban land questions


  4. Gender land inequalities and tenure insecurity
    1. Patriarchy, power relations and unequal gender land rights
    2. Patterns of gender based land inequities
    3. Concluding remarks: advocacy for women's land rights


  5. The African state, land reform and politics
    1. The African state, land policy and primitive accumulation
    2. The state and land reforms in Africa
    3. Local state governance and customary land tenure administration
    4. Concluding comments: land reform outcomes and impacts.


  6. Social movements, civil society and land reform
    1. Social movements, land rights and struggle
    2. The organisation of land struggles
    3. Neo-liberal land advocacy and the co-optation of land reform
    4. Land occupation movements of peasants and others
    5. Ethno-regional movements; successionism and revolts
    6. Concluding comment


  7. Conclusions and suggested research directions
    1. Concluding remark


  8. References





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