Elusive Investors keep buying and selling – People remain and suffer

Chapter in a book;“Rethinking land reform in Africa;opportunities and challenges” by the African Natural Resources Centre;edited by Cosmas Milton Obote Ochieng for the African Development Bank. A think piece reflecting on changing commercial pressures on land in low and middle-income countries; the role of law in shaping the ways those pressures manifest themselves; the limits of business standards in driving systemic change; and the case for comprehensive law reform to secure rural land rights. Includes foreign investment;the commodity boom and bust;the spread of special economic zones;understanding the legal structures of dispossession;the case for reform;and moving forward.