"In many cases land leases are issued by the administrative village, while the land belonged to the natural village in the past. It is like the ownership rights to land have been silently stolen from the natural village and vested in a level higher. [...] Yet, to date there are not many...

Introduction -- Part I: Dispossession -- The crime of apartheid -- Apartheid, capitalism, and land -- Race and dispossession -- About the stolen cattle -- Chiefly power -- Part II: Property and liberation -- Property and the franchise -- Private property and liberation -- The settlement of the...

Land policy reforms across Africa are expected to address several of the underlying critical issues of food security and economic development, because they can help stabilize food prices by improving future expectations on trade and supply. However, there is an absence of solid empirical...