Projektnummer

0059120

Zusammenfassung

In the last three decades, the dynamics of the global economy - in complex interaction with their domestic complements - have constituted a perfect storm of socioeconomic transformation in the countryside of Africa. In specific terms, and following Fine and Rustomjee (1996), this transformation is spawned (and continues to be spawned) by what will be conceptualised in this study as the minerals-energy-food complex (MEFC) land acquisitions in Africa. Ghana, the empirical referent of this proposed study, is a classic case of MEFC land acquisitions in the West Africa sub-region. Since im...