Resettlement

Resettled for Development : The Case of New Halfa Agricultural Scheme, Sudan

Upphovsperson:	Wallin, Marianna
Utgivare:	Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Urban Dynamics | Uppsala, Sweden
År:	2014
Ämnesord:	Sudan, New Halfa, Agricultural development, Resettlement, Irrigation, Living conditions, Nubians, Pastoralists, Nomads

This Current African Issues discusses the displacement and resettlement of the Sudanese Nubians into the New Halfa agricultural scheme in Eastern Sudan, the current state of this multi-ethnic community and the challenges the farmers are facing. The Nubians of Wadi Halfa in Northern Sudan (also called the Halfawi Nubians) had to be relocated to New Halfa due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the early 1960s. In addition to the loss of ancestral land and the alienation they experienced, the Halfawi Nubians struggled to secure a sufficient livelihood in New Halfa and found their lives irreversibly altered. Although the resettlement of the Nubians did not succeed in rooting them in their new territory and a lot of the Halfawi Nubians have since abandoned the scheme, New Halfa has also created unforeseen opportunities for internally displaced people and migrant workers and become a growing regional centre for business and commerce. Despite the fact that New Halfa failed to meet its original targets, it is an example of a resettlement scheme that, in 50 years, developed and adjusted according to the needs of its current inhabitants.

Re-distribution from above : the politics of land rights and squatting in coastal Kenya

Upphovsperson:	Kanyinga, Karuti
Utgivare:	Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År:	2000
Ämnesord:	Kenya, East Africa, Land tenure, Land settlement, Resettlement, Land Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

Using empirical evidence collected from the coastal district of Kenya, an area with a long history of private land ownership which is also situated in a country with one of the most comprehensive efforts at land tenure reform dating from the colonial period, this report challenges the key assumptions of the proponents of land indivualization. In so doing, the author not only points to the many dysfunctionalities associated with land privatisation, including the numerous conflicts it generates on account of the dispossessions and landlessness associated with it, it also reinforces the growing critique that customary land tenure is far more complex and flexible than its critics are prepared to concede.