WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (WJSS)
ISSN: 2504 – 9232
Special, No. 1, October 2019
Pages 76-92
DOI: 10.36108/wjss/9102.sp.0160
RENTIERISM, LAND GRABBING AND THE RIGHTS OF THE NIGERIA INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
ANTHONY CHUKWUEBUKA OKOYE
Abstract
This paper examined the linkages between rentierism, land grabbing and the rights of indigenous communities in Nigeria. It noted that due to the negative impacts of climate change or global warming, writ large on agricultural production across the universe; foreign governments especially from industrialized nations, transnational corporations, pension funds, cooperatives, wealthy individuals, and others, are now in the practice of buying up or leasing large expanse of land (forest), which they clear for large scale industrial agricultural plantation. Designed as a desk study, it made use of secondary data and as such applied the content analysis method of data analysis. It noted that apart from violation of the rights of indigenous people, deforestation also serve as a major contributor of global greenhouse gas emissions. Hence, commercial interests take precedence over environmental and social-cultural rights of the people.
Keywords: Rentierism, land grabbing, human rights, Nigeria and indigenous people