Whose security? Deepening social conflict over ‘customary’ land in the shadow of land tenure reform in Malawi

By P. Peters, D. Kambewa. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 2007

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African farmer-led irrigation development: re-framing agricultural policy and investment? (2017, background): “Consequently, they are now highly valued and sites of struggles for ownership (Peters and Kambewa 2007).”
New investment, old challenges. Land deals and the water constraint in African agriculture (2012, background): “…inflows into areas with favourable agricultural conditions may be associated with growing competition for land and increasingly commoditised transactions in land in the form of rental, sharecropping or sale agreements (Woodhouse 2003, Benjaminsen and Sjaastad 2004, Peters and Kambewa 2007).”
Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “…has been manipulated by some ‘customary’ or ‘traditional’ leaders to their own advantage in allowing them, for example, to use land to recruit paying tenants and political followers or to sell plots for compensation they keep for themselves (P.E. Peters and Kambewa 2007; cf. Daley 2005).”
Lineage and land reforms in Malawi: Do matrilineal and patrilineal landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi? (2014, background): “Matrilineal and patrilineal descent systems have been studied in alawi for a long time (Radcliffe-Brown and Forde, 1950; Peters, 997, 2010; Mitchell, 1952; Benda-Beckmann [1970] 2007; Ibik, 970, 1971).”