Malawi
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Customary land tenure institutions and private capital relations in peri-urban Malawi: Intra-communal land commodification, institutional disruption, and land dispossession
CASAS’ member Sane Zuka has published an article in Cities journal. Abstract: Despite extensive research on the phenomenon of capitalist transformation of land use, debates over commodification of land into capitalist modes of relations persist. This paper responds to this ongoing debate that highlights how, while adequately engaging with large-scale land deals, the scholarship on…
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Rethinking land grabbing: a focus on land Pawning in rural Malawi
CASAS’ member Loveness Msofi Mgalamadzi has published this article with Masautso Chimombo in Cogent Social Sciences journal. Abstract: Land pawning, is a relatively understudied practice in Malawi’s agrarian landscape and broader land scholarship. Our research contextualizes this practice within debates of domestic and global land grabbing. Focussing on smallholder farmers, we analysed how land pawning…