ABSTRACT
The land grabbing trend in Africa demonstrates more similarity than differences when compared with colonial land expropriations. In 2010, the main profiteers of the food price hikes of 2007/2008 promoted and funded the first conference on Large Scale Farming in Africa, hosted by Egypt in Cairo. Social struggles for land and the attached natural resources have been ongoing in Africa and have intensified. The enormous variety of forms of resistance and struggle over land in Africa prevents any simplistic categorisation. Pastoral and agro-pastoral producers, a historically preferred target for eviction and land dispossession, have been claiming back lost pastures and land rights, through both organised action and low-profile resistance. The last set of less visible land struggles in Africa result from historical processes of rural social differentiation and class formation, which goes towards the exclusion of pauperised groups from the access and property of natural resources.
