Foreign Land Investments and Traditional Land Ownership Rights in Africa

Authors

Kepifri Lakoh, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
E. Wesley F. Peterson, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

6-2011

Document Type

Article

Citation

Cornhusker Economics (June 2011)

Comments

Published by University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension, Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Economics. Copyright © [2011] Board of Regents, University of Nebraska. http://agecon.unl.edu/cornhuskereconomics

Abstract

This is the second in a series of three Cornhusker Economics articles on the institutions governing the ownership, use and transfer of agricultural land around the world. Last week, the focus was on the difficult transition from social to private land ownership in the countries of the Former Soviet Union. This week, the issue concerns the recent increase in land purchases in Africa by foreign governments and firms, referred to by some as a new colonial land grab.