New book: Land, Investment & Politics

A new book examines the challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments, with multiple case studies from the Omo-Turkana Basin.

OTuRN affiliates Jeremy Lind and Doris Okenwa have co-edited a new book 'Land, Investment & Politics' which we highly recommend! Containing chapters from affiliates Cory Rodgers, Gregory Akall, and many other OTuRN colleagues and friends, the book examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples, with multiple case studies from the Omo-Turkana Basin. 

The open access introductory chapter can be found here: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/15458

To purchase the link please see the publisher's page: https://boydellandbrewer.com/land-investment-politics.html . The authors have kindly shared a discount code - BB135.

 

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