The Commons in a Glocal World

15Grabbing the female commons

Large-scale land acquisitions for forest plantations and impacts on gender relations in Kilolo district, Iringa Region, Tanzania

Désirée Gmür

Introduction

Even though much has been written on the impacts of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA) in Tanzania (Locher and Sulle 2013, 2014) and Africa in general (Cotula et al. 2009; Toulmin 2008), there is a notorious blindness regarding the impact on the commons and issues of resilience¹ regarding gender relations (see also Doss et al. 2014). Specifically, long-term social anthropological research on the gendered impacts of LSLAs is lacking. Scant literature deals with the broader institutional changes in gender relations due to LSLA and the strategies women adopt ...