Mapping for investability: Remaking land and maps in Lesotho

Fogelman, Charles; Bassett, Thomas J.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.07.008

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“…Furthermore, Lawry et al (2017) do not find evidence to support that land titling interventions enhance credit access. This literature along with other studies, for instance work by Fogelman and Bassett (in press) who document a case where a land titling program in Lesotho contributed to the dispossession of the title holders, suggest the view that enhancing formal land tenure security is always wealth-enhancing is too simplistic. The impact of a formal land tenure security intervention may depend on, among other factors, the nature and context of the intervention.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 91%

Women’s Land Tenure Security and Household Human Capital: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Land Certification

Muchomba

2017

World Development

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This paper examines the impact of Ethiopia’s gendered land certification programs on household consumption of healthcare, food, education, and clothing. Ethiopia embarked on a land tenure reform program in 1998, after years of communism during which all land was nationalized. The reform began in Tigray region where land certificates were issued to household heads, who were primarily male. In a second phase carried out in 2003–2005, three other regions issued land certificates jointly to household heads and spouses, presenting variation in land tenure security by gender. Results using household panel data show that joint land certification to spouses was accompanied by increased household consumption of healthcare and homegrown food and decreased education expenditure, compared to household-head land certification. Joint land certification was also accompanied by increased consumption of women’s and girls’ clothing, and decreased men’s clothing expenditures indicating results may be explained by a shift in the gender balance of power within households. Analysis on the incidence and duration of illness indicates that increased healthcare expenditures after joint land certification may be due to joint certification households seeking more effective treatment than head-only certification households for household members who fell ill or suffered injuries.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 91%

Women’s Land Tenure Security and Household Human Capital: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Land Certification

Muchomba

2017

World Development

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“…For instance, Li (2014b: 592) has shown that "rendering land investable" for largescale investors relies on discursively framing land as empty or degraded, calculating geographies of risk, and formalizing property rights. Similar conclusions about turning land into a financial asset apply to farmland mortgage markets in the global south (Fogelman and Bassett, 2017;Green, 2019). However, until now, relatively little research has examined these processes, even though development scholars have extensively documented the administrative challenges of formalizing property rights in the global south (Dwyer, 2015;Hall et al, 2011;Sjaastad and Cousins, 2009).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Since then, national land titling programs throughout the global south have sought to provide people with land collateral to access formal credit (De Soto, 2000; Deininger, 2003). Farm mortgages therefore occupy a central place in geographic scholarship on agrarian finance (Fairbairn, 2020; Fogelman and Bassett, 2017; Green, 2019; Ouma, 2020). Much of this scholarship is concerned with how capital circulates through land, drawing on the work of Harvey (1982) and his interpretation of Marx’s theory of rent and finance capital.…”

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Financing agrarian change: Geographies of credit and debt in the global south

Green

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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This article critically analyzes agrarian finance in terms of household credit and debt in the global south. I introduce interdisciplinary concepts about agrarian finance before reviewing how political ecologists and development geographers have studied this topic in relation to agricultural production, social reproduction, and farm mortgages and dispossession. To advance this research, I engage with financial geography scholarship about financial ecologies and variegated financial capitalism. I argue that agrarian finance is always embedded in the agricultural practices and interdependencies of rural life, but that such relations are increasingly shaped by global finance capital governed by institutions operating at multiple scales.

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“…Maps are, thus, propositions (Wood, 2010) in which assumptions about space shape particular narratives and actions over territorial management and control (Castán-Broto and Baker, 2018). What stems from such lenses is that spatial representations are not a neutral or objective act of cartography, but instead are a part of larger assemblages and political choices (Fogelman and Bassett, 2017; Li, 2014).…”

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(Counter)mapping renewables: Space, justice, and politics of wind and solar power in Mexico

Ávila

Deniau

Şorman

et al. 2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The ongoing expansion of renewable energies entails major spatial reconfigurations with social, environmental, and political dimensions. These emerging geographies are, however, in the process of taking shape, as their early configurations are still open to democratic intervention and contestation. While a recent line of research highlights the prominent role that maps are playing in directing such processes, the potential effects of countermapping on these evolving geographies have not yet been explored. In this article, we present a countermapping initiative promoting a dialogue between critical geography, political ecology, and environmental justice. Our work is the result of an alliance between Geocomunes—a collective of activist cartographers based in Mexico—and the EjAtlas—a global collaborative project tracking cases of grassroots mobilizations against environmental injustices. We take the case of Mexico's low-carbon development strategy to dissect the spatial expansion of wind and solar mega-projects at both national and regional scales. Our project consists of a series of databases and maps aimed to “fill” the spaces and relations otherwise “emptied” by the state's cartographic tools designed to promote investments in the sector. When presenting our results, we highlight how renewable energy projects in Mexico have so far juxtaposed with local territories, peoples, and resources, in ways that trigger instances of environmental injustice on the ground. We close this article by discussing the role of critical cartography and countermapping in building alternative political–economic projects for the energy transition.

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Mapping for investability: Remaking land and maps in Lesotho

Cited by 21 publications

References 13 publications

Women’s Land Tenure Security and Household Human Capital: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Land Certification

Women’s Land Tenure Security and Household Human Capital: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Land Certification

Financing agrarian change: Geographies of credit and debt in the global south

(Counter)mapping renewables: Space, justice, and politics of wind and solar power in Mexico

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