- Title
- Governance and corruption: examining the impact of land grabbing through bad governance and corruption by the state on the rural poor in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Creator
- Nondo, Arnold
- Subject
- land, land grabbing, governance, corruption, foreign investment
- Type
- Thesis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10004/97960, vital:4259, valet-20180112-100826
- Description
- Land grabbing is a phenomenon that has engulfed most post war and yet fragile states in Africa. The concept of land grabbing has been cordially associated with bad land governance and grand corruption in the developing world. There has been a growing debate among the academics and policy makers whether bad land governance exacerbate corruption in the land sector or that developing countries need the expertise of foreign aid through the acquisition of farm land. The issue has been examined in the research study in the perspective of DRC and Sierra Leone. The study has been conducted on the basis of secondary data and on-line literature to explore various ways through which land grabbing has impacted on the rural poor and why top politicians and top country elites would sacrifice leadership to greed and rent seeking. The secondary data has been so helpful in this study to provide various anti-corruption strategies and initiatives to try and stop grand corruption in the land sector. Trans-national corporations and other private companies exacerbate corruption in the land sector and want to maintain the status quo of leadership crisis in Africa and poor land tenure systems so they can acquire more and more land. It is well understood that even when the land concession has been signed, there is no guarantee a land deal will proceed in accordance with the law. When land deals were first proposed they were said to benefit the host country in rural setting with the following: more jobs in farm lands, new technology (through green revolution), infrastructure(rural v road networks) and extra tax revenue. The broader picture that has been shown so far is that a minimum measure of these has been fulfilled. Most land deals contribute little or nothing to the public purse. The big investor tends to be capital oriented, with the mind of exporting offering food security to their people at all.
- Contributor
- Hughes,Professor Caroline
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences, Peace Studies
- Language
- EN
- Relation
- no
- Rights
- © 2018 University of Bradford. All rights reserved
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