Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
Panacea or Pandora's Box?
Published on 7. April 2022
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-4875-0521-9 (ISBN)
Description
There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, more than a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental organizations to devote considerable attention to the potential of natural resource-based development.
Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa places a particular emphasis on the actors that help us understand the extent to which resources could be transformed into broader developmental outcomes. Based on a wide variety of primary sources and fieldwork, including in-person interviews and participant observations, this collection contributes to both scholarly and policy discussions around the governance and economic development roles of local entrepreneurs, transnational firms, civil society groups, local communities, and government agencies in Africa's natural resource sectors. Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa explores the impact that these actors have on regional trends such as resource nationalism and local procurement policies as well as grassroots-related issues such as poverty, livelihoods, gender equity, development, and human security.
Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa places a particular emphasis on the actors that help us understand the extent to which resources could be transformed into broader developmental outcomes. Based on a wide variety of primary sources and fieldwork, including in-person interviews and participant observations, this collection contributes to both scholarly and policy discussions around the governance and economic development roles of local entrepreneurs, transnational firms, civil society groups, local communities, and government agencies in Africa's natural resource sectors. Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa explores the impact that these actors have on regional trends such as resource nationalism and local procurement policies as well as grassroots-related issues such as poverty, livelihoods, gender equity, development, and human security.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
4 b&w figures, 11 b&w tables
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-0521-9 (9781487505219)
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Persons
Nathan Andrews is an associate professor of international relations at McMaster University.
J. Andrew Grant is an associate professor of political studies at Queen's University.
Jesse Salah Ovadia is an associate professor of political science at the University of Windsor.
J. Andrew Grant is an associate professor of political studies at Queen's University.
Jesse Salah Ovadia is an associate professor of political science at the University of Windsor.
Content
Section I: Introduction
1. An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
Nathan Andrews, J. Andrew Grant, Jesse Salah Ovadia, and Adam Sneyd
Section II: Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels
2. Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: 'New Governance' Insights from South Africa
Raynold Wonder Alorse and Nathan Andrews
3. The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana's 'Oil City': How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-Takoradi
Jesse Salah Ovadia and Emmanuel Graham
4. Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana's Oil
Abigail Efua Hilson
5. Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda
Patricia Ackah-Baidoo, Andrea M. Collins, and J. Andrew Grant
6. Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil Sectors
Steffi Hamann, Brendan Schwartz, and Adam Sneyd
Section III: Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement
7. Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent Development
Carolyn Bassett and Allyson Fradella
8. 'The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths': An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource Nationalism
Alexander Caramento
9. Promoting Mining Local Procurement Through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO's Efforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining Industry
Jeff Geipel and Emily Nickerson
10. The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in Africa
Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Alex Awiti
11. 'Community Development' in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project
Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu
Section IV: Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus
12. Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African Republic
Chris Huggins
13. Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Sarah Katz-Lavigne
14. China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing's Foreign Policy in Africa
David Walsh-Pickering
Section V: Concluding Remarks and Reflections
15. Reflections on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa in the 2020s
Nathan Andrews, Edward Akuffo, and J. Andrew Grant
1. An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
Nathan Andrews, J. Andrew Grant, Jesse Salah Ovadia, and Adam Sneyd
Section II: Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels
2. Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: 'New Governance' Insights from South Africa
Raynold Wonder Alorse and Nathan Andrews
3. The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana's 'Oil City': How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-Takoradi
Jesse Salah Ovadia and Emmanuel Graham
4. Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana's Oil
Abigail Efua Hilson
5. Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda
Patricia Ackah-Baidoo, Andrea M. Collins, and J. Andrew Grant
6. Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil Sectors
Steffi Hamann, Brendan Schwartz, and Adam Sneyd
Section III: Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement
7. Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent Development
Carolyn Bassett and Allyson Fradella
8. 'The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths': An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource Nationalism
Alexander Caramento
9. Promoting Mining Local Procurement Through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO's Efforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining Industry
Jeff Geipel and Emily Nickerson
10. The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in Africa
Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Alex Awiti
11. 'Community Development' in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project
Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu
Section IV: Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus
12. Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African Republic
Chris Huggins
13. Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Sarah Katz-Lavigne
14. China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing's Foreign Policy in Africa
David Walsh-Pickering
Section V: Concluding Remarks and Reflections
15. Reflections on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa in the 2020s
Nathan Andrews, Edward Akuffo, and J. Andrew Grant