Family Trees and Paper Uncles: Customary Land Rights, Hybrid Formalization, and the Forestry Boom in Southern Tanzania

Come hear how village residents, local officials, and urban investors draw on customary norms, family networks, and bureaucratic documents in order to conduct land sales and to produce vast areas of commercial forestry in Tanzania.

Ewan Robinson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pulte Institute for Global Development and the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He previously worked as a policy advisor on food systems and nutrition at the Institute of Development Studies, in the UK. Ewan holds Ph.D. and M.S. in Global Development from Cornell University, and an M.A. in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.