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Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018
Institutional Affiliation (at time of award):
University of Ibadan
POLITICS OF LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS AND THE LAND RIGHTS OF SMALLHOLDER WOMEN FARMERS IN NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA

This study digresses from the dominant narratives of non-differentiation and direct impact assessment advanced by scholars and observers in appraising Large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs). Hence, extant literature have examined its scale, drivers, and geography; and the direct impacts of such transnational capital in-flow such as land dispossession, displacement, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and resource-based violence. However, there exist a dearth of research that interrogates the power asymmetries that underpins the politics of LSLAs, the gendered and human security impacts it heralds for vulnerable smallholder women farmers in Nigeria. To achieve this, the study employs quantitative and qualitative methods—ex-post facto design—to interrogate the operationalization of the 10,000 hectares Olam-Integrated Rice Farm in Rukubi-Andorie in north-central Nigeria which falls within the theme of (human) security and development, and how LSLAs violates women's land rights, which mutually reinforce to orchestrate structural violence against the economic security of peasant women farmers.

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