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Dr. Frankline Ndi

Research Associate

Research Foci

  • Development and economic geography

  • Land and environmental politics, policies and conflicts

  • Food security and agricultural transformation

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Dr. Frankline Ndi

+49 228 73-2104

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Meckenheimer Allee 166

53115 Bonn

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Personal Information

  • 2022 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Future Rural Africa research project

  • 2020 – 2022: Örebro University, Sweden, Postdoctoral Researcher

  • 2014 – 2018: University of Melbourne – Australia - PhD in Human Geography,
    Doctoral Thesis titled ‘Behind the Scenes of Land Grabbing: Conflict, Competition, and the Gendered Implications for Local Food Production and Rural Livelihoods in Cameroon’. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/210454

  • 2011– 2013: Ghent University – Belgium – International MSc in Rural Development

  • 2009 – 2010: Linnaeus University – Sweden - MSc Peace and Development Studies

  • 2002 – 2005: University of Buea – Cameroon - BSc Sociology and Anthropology

Projects

Publications and public presentations

  • Ndi, F. 2024. Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project, Energy Research & Social Science, 112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103530
  • Ndi, F. A. 2024. Justice concerns in large-scale renewable energy projects: a case study echoing the importance of procedural justice in wind energy development in Kenya, Energy, Sustainability and Society, 14(47). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-024-00482-z
  • Ndi F.A., Batterbury, S., and Wanki, J.E. (2021). Corporate Land Acquisitions at the Intersection of Lineage and Patronage Networks in Cameroon. Journal of Modern African Studies, Cambridge University Press, 59 (3), p. 319-341. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X2100015X.
  • Ndi, F.A.; Wanki, J.E, and Dessein, J. (2021). Protectors or Enablers? Untangling the Roles of Traditional Authorities and Local Elites in Foreign Land Grabs in Cameroon. Development Policy Review, 00: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12572.
  • Ndi, F.A. (2019) Land Grabbing, Gender and Access to Land: Implications for Local Food Production and Rural Livelihoods Amongst Affected Communities in South West Cameroon. Canadian Journal of African Studies. 53(1), 131-154. DOI:10.1080/00083968.2018.1484296
  • Ndi, F.A. (2019). Land Grabbing: A Gendered Understanding of Perceptions and Reactions from Affected Communities in Nguti Subdivision of the South West Region of Cameroon. Development Policy Review, Vol 37, Issue 3, p.348-366, DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12351 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dpr.12351
  • Batterbury S.P.J., and F.A. Ndi (2018). Land Grabbing in Africa. In Binns J.A., K. Lynch and E. Nels (Eds). Handbook of African Development. London. Routledge, p. 573-582. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322790095_Land-grabbing_in_Africa
  • Wanki, J.E., and F.A. Ndi. (2019) Land Grabbing in South-western Cameroon: Deconstructing the Complexity of Local Responses. In Fonjong. L. ed. Natural Resource Endowment and the Fallacy of Development in Cameroon. Langaa Publishers.
  • Ndi, F.A. (2017). Land Grabbing, Local Contestation and the Struggle for Economic Gain: Insights from Nguti village, South West Cameroon, SAGE Open, p. 1-14. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244016682997
  • Ndi, F.A., and Batterbury, S. (2017). Land Grabbing and the Axis of Political Conflicts: Insights from South West Cameroon, Africa Spectrum, 52(1), p. 33-63. https://journals.sub.unihamburg. de/giga/afsp/article/view/1020
  •  Ndi, F.A. 2024. Large-scale wind energy extraction and the vagaries of infrastructural violence in northern Kenya: The case of the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project. VAD Conference, Sept 29-Oct 02, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
  • Ndi, F. A 2024. When promises are not (yet) met: Local dysphoria, contestations and the struggle for survival amidst large-scale solar energy development in Kenya. Political Ecology Conference (Pollen) 10-12 June 2024, Lund University, Sweden.
  • Ndi, F.A 2024. Justice concerns in large-scale renewable energy projects: a case study echoing the importance of procedural justice from energy-affected people in rural Kenya. Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM), 24-27 June 2024, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
  • Ndi, F.A. 2023. Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihoods transformation in rural Kenya. European Conference for African Studies (ECAS) 31 May-02 June 2023, University of Cologne, Germany.
  • Ndi, F.A. (2017). Land Governance and Poverty, World Bank, Washington DC. March 2017