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Policy Perspectives, 2022 Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is a disputed territory according to the United Nations (UN) resolutions unless the people exercise their right to self-determination and decide their own fate. India has maintained its special status through specific arrangements in its constitution.
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Urban Land Grabs in Africa? [PDF]
Built Environment, 2019 Africa is rapidly urbanising. New dynamics of investments and mobilities ensue the expansive urbanisation, generating transformative effects on the continents urban land and built environment. The transformative effects are also on the future prospects for sustainable living conditions for African urban dwellers. This special issue of Built Environment
Steel, G., van Noorloos, F., Otsuki, K.
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The land grabbing in the international scenario: the role of the EU in land grabbing [PDF]
Agricultural and Food Economics, 2016 The worldwide increase in population and consumption has produced a growing demand for food and energy in the rich and developing Countries. The resulting intensification of land investments, to cope with this need, has in many cases produced investments without transparency rules and it hasn’t created real development for local people. The aim of this
Carroccio, A +3 more
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The Political Economy of Land Grabbing [PDF]
Homo Oeconomicus, 2016 We propose a comprehensive model of the political economy of land grabbing. It is based on arguments related to property rights assignments, societal power relations along the core-periphery dimension as well as distributional, ethnic and resource-exhausting conflict.
Krieger, Tim, Leroch, Martin
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, 2018 Dalam laporan Sue Branford untuk “The Guardian” (22 November 2008) ditekankan bahwa krisis pangan (yang mengarah berkelanjutan) akibat perampasan lahan secara besar-besaran oleh perusahaan swasta di seluruh dunia, yang meski di antaranya ada yang dimaksudkan untuk produksi massal bahan makanan, sangat sulit dihindari.
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Land Grabbing and Ethnic Conflict [PDF]
Homo Oeconomicus, 2016 We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000–2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating that the negative effects of land deals outweigh their ...
Krieger, Tim, Meierrieks, Daniel
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Global land and water grabbing [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013 Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of the rising food demand by the growing human population, dietary changes, and the enhancement of biofuel production induced by the rising oil prices and recent changes in United States and European Union bioethanol policies.
RULLI, MARIA CRISTINA +2 more
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, 2017 Developments in the area of ‘precision agriculture’ are creating new data points (about flows, soils, pests, climate) that agricultural technology providers ‘grab,’ aggregate, compute, and/or sell. Food producers now churn out food and, increasingly, data.
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, 2021 Land grabbing is not a novelty although it might appear so at first glance. It is indeed renowned for it has appeared consistently in history while being applied during colonial times. Colonial territories were a source of cheap land, labor and territories those territories resulted in a system of low-priced payments to peasant producers exporting ...
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