Dr Simon Manda and Dr Jörg Wiegratz publish new article on large scale land acquisitions in Africa

CGD Co-Director, Dr Simon Manda, and CGD member, Dr Jörg Wiegratz, have published a new article - Politics of state-capital relations in Africa: the case of ‘big sugar’ in Zambia - in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. The article examines Zambia’s big sugar era (1998–2024) and traces how state-capital relations coalesced and evolved during this period. In doing so, it offers a new way of thinking about divergent outcomes from large-scale land acquisitions in Africa.

The article builds on the author's CGD Working Paper - Agro-corporations, Countermovements and the Quest for Legitimacy - which was published in April 2024.

You can read more CGD Working Papers here: CGD Working Paper Series | Centre for Global Development