The global land grab : beyond the hype /

The last two years have seen a huge amount of interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South. This in-depth and empirically diverse volume takes a step back from the hype to explore a number of key questions: does the 'g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kaag, Maria Margaretha Antonia (Editor ), Zoomers, E. B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Halifax : London : Fernwood Publishing ; Zed Books, [2014]
Temas:
Land use > Developing countries > Case studies.
Eminent domain > Developing countries > Case studies.
Utilisation du sol > Pays en voie de développement > Études de cas.
Utilisation du sol > Nouveaux pays industrialisés > Études de cas.
Expropriation > Pays en voie de développement > Études de cas.
Expropriation > Nouveaux pays industrialisés > Études de cas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Eminent domain
Land use
Social conditions
Internationaler Vergleich
Agrobusiness
Ackerfläche
Landnahme
Economics.
Developing countries > Social conditions > Case studies.
Pays en voie de développement > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Nouveaux pays industrialisés > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Developing countries
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Africa
  • 1. Modernizing the periphery: citizenship and Ethiopia's new agricultural investment policies / Maru Shete
  • 2. Large-scale land acquisitions in Tanzania: a critical analysis of practices and dynamics / Lennart Salomonsson
  • 3. Kenya and the `global land grab': a view from below / Odenda Lumumba
  • Latin America
  • 4. The rapid expansion of genetically modified soy production into the Chaco region of Argentina / Annelies Zoomers
  • 5. Transnational land investment in Costa Rica: tracing residential tourism and its implications for development / Femke van Noorloos
  • 6. Water grabbing in the Andean region: illustrative cases from Peru and Ecuador / Jan Hendriks
  • Asia
  • 7. Land governance and oil palm development: examples from Riau Province, Indonesia / Suseno Budidarsono
  • 8. Vietnam in the debate on land grabbing: conversion of agricultural land for urban expansion and hydropower development / Guus van Westen
  • 9. `Land grabbing' in Cambodia: land rights in a post-conflict setting / Guus van Westen
  • 10. Beyond the Gulf State investment hype: the case of Indonesia and the Philippines / Laurens Bakker
  • 11. Tracing the dragon's footsteps: a deconstruction of the discourse on China's foreign land investments / Irna Hofman
  • 12. Conclusion: beyond the global land grab hype
  • ways forward in research and action / Mayke Kaag.

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