This article provides an examination of the mechanisms behind the global wave of land grabbing that accompanied the last food crises of 2008 and 2012, showing a two-sided process: on the one hand, how the state dispossesses or allows the dispossession of peasants from the land they own; on the other, how the peasantry resists the redefinition of land rights. Taking the case of Burkina Faso, this research uncovers specific modes of dispossession (based for example on eminent domain for mining or cash crop) as well as resistance (from the transformation of land markets from below to violent repossession of the land).
Varieties of Land Grabbing and Resistance in Burkina Faso / Dolcerocca A. - In: THE AUSTRALASIAN REVIEW OF AFRICAN STUDIES. - ISSN 1447-8420. - STAMPA. - 43:1(2022), pp. 3-22. [10.22160/22035184/ARAS-2022-43-1/3-22]
Varieties of Land Grabbing and Resistance in Burkina Faso
Dolcerocca A
Primo
2022
Abstract
This article provides an examination of the mechanisms behind the global wave of land grabbing that accompanied the last food crises of 2008 and 2012, showing a two-sided process: on the one hand, how the state dispossesses or allows the dispossession of peasants from the land they own; on the other, how the peasantry resists the redefinition of land rights. Taking the case of Burkina Faso, this research uncovers specific modes of dispossession (based for example on eminent domain for mining or cash crop) as well as resistance (from the transformation of land markets from below to violent repossession of the land).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
