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| Title: | Whose Security? Deepening Social Conflict over 'Customary' Land in the Shadow of Land Tenure Reform in Malawi |
| Authors: | Peters, Pauline E. Kambewa, Daimon |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Period: | September |
| Pages: | 447-472 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Malawi |
| Subjects: | land tenure land reform land conflicts land use customary law Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4501299 |
| Abstract: | Malawi, like other countries in Africa, has a new land policy designed to clarify and formalize customary tenure. The country is poor with a high population density, highly dependent on agriculture, and the sites researched - in Zomba district - in this article are matrilineal-matrilocal, and near urban centres. But the Zomba case raises issues relevant to land tenure reform elsewhere: the role of 'traditional authorities' or chiefs vis-à-vis the State and 'community'; variability in types of 'customary' tenure; and deepening inequality within rural populations. Even before it is implemented, the pending land policy in Malawi is intensifying competition over land. The authors discuss this and the increase in rentals and sales; the effects of public debates about the new land policy; a new discourse about 'original settlers' and 'strangers'; and political manoeuvring by chiefs. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
