scholarly journals Facing Scarcity in a Land Grab Context in Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 153-171
Author(s):  
Hugues Morell Meliki
Keyword(s):  
Rural Area ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Land Grabs

This paper undertakes a critical exploration of the mechanisms via which communities cope with scarcity resulting from land grabs. It explores two ranges of practices – residential multilocality and sorcery – through the lens of resilience. Residential multilocality appears as a novel living arrangement dealing with resource scarcity, while sorcery is used as a tool for bolstering a policy of resource regeneration. Thus, instead of rushing to nearby cities as a response to scarcity, the communities observed reinstate two silenced dynamics. Firstly, they underscore the rise of inter, and intra-rural mobility entrenched in the paradigm of residential multilocality. The paradigm embodies a scarcity management strategy in the sense that the abundance of vital resources in one rural area attracts villagers from other communities struggling with scarcity. Secondly, sorcery is used as a strategy to command eco-friendly behavior of villagers in order to successfully achieve a resource regeneration policy.

scholarly journals LAND GRABS AND HUMAN INSECURITY IN COLONIAL JOS PLATEAU, NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
Onyekachi Nnabuihe ◽  
◽  
Kayode George ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Mining Operation ◽  
Biofuel Production ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Jos Plateau ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Land Grabs ◽  
Land Policies

This article places land grab in its primeval colonial milieu and investigates how colonial tin mining operation induced human insecurity in colonial Jos, Nigeria. It uses the human insecurity approach to address questions of colonial “control grabbing” – grabbing and controlling of land – in Jos Plateau. Although contemporary research addresses the recent rush for African lands, they have allocated minimal attention to historical details and lessons of colonialism as well as its connection to human insecurity. Through the use of interviews and archival sources, the article investigates how tin mining operations stimulated human insecurity and how British land policies and politics empowered the Hausa and Fulani in Jos Plateau, to accumulate much land and how their actions and inactions provided the incentives for bloody and intractable conflicts in the post-colonial era. The article argues that scholarly analysis of land grab is largely associated with food and biofuel production ignoring the connection with tin exploitation and its legacies. To this end, discourses on land grabs need to allocate adequate attention to natural resources as a stimulant for the phenomenon and why it is a threat to environmental peace. Keywords: Land grabs, human insecurity, land policies and politics, conflicts, Jos Plateau Nigeria.

scholarly journals Energy and Food Demands, Drivers of Land Grab; A Case of Rufiji River Basin In Tanzania

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Godfrey Eliseus Massay
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Direct Link ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Land Grabs ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rufiji River

Land grabs has been a tendy phenomena in the last decade across the grobe with Africa and Asia being the hard hit regions.  There has been many drivers that fueled land grabs including the crisses in the food, fuel and finance sector. Attempts has been made by scholars, activists and international communities to define what consitute “land grab” in the contenporay period. Informed by the framework definition of land grabs provided by International Land Coalition’s Tirana Declaration of 2012, this paper uses two cases of foreign land-based agricutural investments to prove the existence of land grabs in Tanzania. Broadly, the two cases are evidence of the global energy and food crises shaping the national and local politics of land governance. These national and local politics are manifested into land grabs dispossesing communities of their land. The paper urgues that there is direct link between the global and the national politics of land grabs. If further shows the role played and approaches used by social movements to resist land grabs.  

scholarly journals Land grab / data grab

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Global South ◽  
Agricultural Technology ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
The People ◽  
Land Grabs ◽  
Data Production ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Key Issues

Developments in the area of ‘precision agriculture’ are creating new data points (about flows, soils, pests, climate) that agricultural technology providers ‘grab,’ aggregate, compute, and/or sell. Food producers now churn out food and, increasingly, data. ‘Land grabs’ on the horizon in the global south are bound up with the dynamics of data production and grabbing, although researchers have not, as yet, revealed enough about the people and projects caught up in this new arena. Against this backdrop, this paper examines some of the key issues taking shape, while highlighting new frontiers for research and introducing a concept of ‘data sovereignty,’ which food sovereignty practitioners (and others) need to consider.

scholarly journals Caregiver Burden among Informal Caregivers of Rural Older Persons in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
Khanal B ◽  
Chalise HN
Keyword(s):  
Rural Area ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Caregiving Burden ◽  
The Mean

Background: Today, people are living longer than ever before due to advances in education, technology, medicine, food distribution, and public health. Longevity has also resulted in a caregiving burden in the family living together. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the situation of the elderly caregiving burden in Nepal. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study carried out in a rural area of Nepal. The total sample size for this study was 150 older persons 65 years and above. The caregiving burden was measured through the widely used scale Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI). Results: Mean age of the care recipients (elderly) was 78.46 (±7.78) years and the mean age of the care provider was 46.6 (±46) years. The mean score of the caregiving burden was 12.89 (±5.7). The majority of the caregiver has reported little or no burden (88%), 10% mild to the moderate burden, 1.33% moderate to severe burden and only one respondent (0.67%) has reported severe burden. Marital status, ethnicity, religion, living arrangement, and functional limitations on activities on daily living were significant variables related to caregiving burden. Conclusion: This study shows the caregiving burden is quite low among Nepalese care providers living in a rural area. Given the growing number of elderly people, there is an urgent need to care for the wellbeing of dependent older people and their families.

scholarly journals Study among geriatric people residing in urban and rural area and associated factor with depression in Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 4167
Author(s):  
Deepika Gaire ◽  
Nand Ram Gahatraj ◽  
Rajesh Kumar Yadav ◽  
Geeta Shah ◽  
Sushila Baral
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Geriatric Depression

Background: Depression is a common and major public health problem among geriatric people, but it is not a normal part of aging. It is not just a low mood or feeling sad, but a serious condition that needs treatment and has serious effects on physical as well as mental health. It is one of the hidden problems of the geriatric people.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 196 elderly people from Kaski district of Nepal using geriatric depression scale to assess the level of depression. Wards of metropolitan was randomly selected and represented as urban area and ward of rural municipality were randomly selected and considered as rural areas. Data were collected by face-to-face interview among geriatric people. Data were analyzed by SPSS v.16 version. The appropriate statistical tests were applied based on the nature of the data, setting the level of significance at p<0.05.Results: Out of total 196 study participants 101 were from urban area and 95 from rural area. The overall prevalence of depression was 55.1%. In this study geriatric depression was significantly associated with: spouse status, living arrangement, satisfaction with living condition, family support, family care, abuse, relationship with son, relationship with daughter in law, work, discrimination, social isolation and loneliness and health problems.Conclusions: More than half of the elderly population had developed depressive symptoms. Immediate addressing of geriatric depression by providing health services, counseling and harmonious relationship among geriatric people and family members especially their son and daughter in law should be created by providing social support and counseling to family members.

Leveraging a theory of slack: How resource scarcity affects borrowing behavior

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anuj K. Shah ◽  
Eldar Shafir ◽  
Sendhil Mullainathan
Keyword(s):  
Resource Scarcity

Basic need satisfaction as a terror management strategy

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Vail ◽  
Jamie Arndt ◽  
Brian Pope
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategy ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Basic Need Satisfaction ◽  
Basic Need
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