Chapter 5. Gender

TL;DR: The authors proposes that reports of pervasive competition and conflict over land in sub-Saharan Africa belie a current image of negotiable and adaptive customary systems of landholding and land use, revealing processes of exclusion, deepening social divisions and class formation.

TL;DR: For over a decade African economies have been plagued by recurrent food shortages, economic decline and growing disparities between the living standards of rich and poor as discussed by the authors, and to a large extent food shortages and rural impoverishment may be attributed to external shocks such as world recession, oil price shocks, deteriorating terms of trade and mounting debt service obligations.

TL;DR: The politics of violence in Acholiland: Relief Aid, Violence, and the Camp as discussed by the authors is a good starting point for a discussion of human rights intervention in Africa and the turn to culture.

TL;DR: The authors argued that women have faced different forms of tenure insecurity, both as wives and in their relations with wider kin, as landholding systems have been integrated into wider markets and drew out these arguments from experience of tenure reform in Tanzania and asked how policy-makers might address these issues differently.