A5004921480- Land Rights and Reforms
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- African history and culture studies
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Mining and Resource Management
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- South African History and Culture
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- African history and culture analysis
KU Leuven
2021
University of Antwerp
2013-2016
UCLouvain
2014
ABSTRACT In a context of increased competition over natural resources, large-scale investors are showing renewed interest in eastern Congo's mineral resources. At the local level this is resulting fierce disputes access to land and mining sites. This article offers an empirical study Luhwindja, where multinational company has recently begun exploit gold. We first sketch context, examining overlapping legal fields analysing how various actors gain control gold mines. Next we arrival Banro...
Mukungwe is a gold mine in eastern DRC, where mineral resources are commonly labelled 'conflict minerals'. Although Mukungwe's history has been characterised by conflict, we do not analyse the conflict here as mere example of resource conflict. This article offers more contextual understanding, starting from detailed ethnographic and historical account inspired literature on access control. In this sense, violence understood but one mechanisms Based archival research, insights into...
LAND RUSH is a board game that allows participants to critically assess the ways in which different social classes face both opportunities and constraints securing land rights managing acquired sustainably an extremely competitive environment. The illustrates three characteristics of contemporary dynamics altering world. First, logics smallholder farmers are largely oriented towards risk diversification, often contrast with those current agrarian policies most international national policy...
In the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, land-use rights underwent profound changes following processes colonization, commodification and conflict, leading to an increased individualization privatization tenure. Despite these evolutions, customary tenure continues be described as a common-property system managed through strong hierarchical tribute-based land allocation mechanism. This central place commons in policy discourses either stems from romantic, often Western, notion on communal...