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Small-scale land grabbing in Greater Gaborone, Botswana
Town and Regional Planning, 2021 Most of the studies on land grabbing tend to focus on the acquisition of large tracts of land by transnational companies interested in biofuel and/or food-crop production.
Faustin Kalabamu, Paul Lyamuya
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Land grabbing and agribusiness in Argentina: five critical dimensions for analysing corporate strategies and its impacts over unequal actors. [PDF]
Rev Agric Food Environ Stud, 2022 This paper critically analyses the complexity of the land grabbing phenomenon in Argentina. We study land grabbing processes linked to the expansion of agribusiness by focusing on corporate regionally extended land grabbers’ strategies through five ...
Sosa Varrotti AP, Ramírez DC, Serpe PC.
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Land, 2019 We examine collaborations between the state and civil society in the context of land grabbing in Argentina. Land grabbing provokes many governance challenges, which generate new social arrangements.
Nienke Busscher +2 more
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Land grabbing in Botswana: Modern era dispossession
Town and Regional Planning, 2019 Land grab refers to the formal transfers of large tracts of communal land to foreign or locally based investors for carrying out activities associated with livestock rearing, carbon trading and commercial food production.
Chadzimula Molebatsi
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Land, 2018 Recently, we witnessed an immense increase in international land transactions in the Global South, a phenomenon slowly expanding in northern industrialized countries, too.
Ramona Bunkus, Insa Theesfeld
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Rural Shrinkage: Depopulation and Land Grabbing in Chilean Patagonia
Land, 2023 One current global problem is the shrinkage of rural areas, which is expected to become an increasingly recurrent dynamic caused by the transformations in land uses and forms of habitation of the contemporary era.
Pablo Mansilla-Quiñones +1 more
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The solar rush: invisible land grabbing in East Germany
International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 2023 The article presents an ethnographic analysis of the planning and implementation of open-field photovoltaic (PV) plants on agricultural land in East Germany.
Katja Müller, Mareike Pampus
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Land grabbing and the implications for the right to development in Africa
African Human Rights Law Journal, 2023 The indispensability ofland for agriculture and the extraction of the natural resources thereon to sustain industrialisation and economic growth processes across the world have orchestrated a significant change in patterns of land ownership and use in ...
lean-Claude N Ashukem, Carol Chi NGANG
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 Carbon losses from forest degradation and disturbances are significant and growing sources of emissions in the Brazilian Amazon. Between 2003 and 2019, degradation and disturbance accounted for 44% of forest carbon losses in the region, compared with 56%
Sanne Kruid +9 more
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Land Grabbing and the Perplexities of Territorial Sovereignty
Political Theory, 2021 The recent phenomenon of land grabbing—that is, the large-scale acquisition of private land rights by foreign investors—is an effect of increasing global demand for farmland, resources, and development opportunities.
Anna Jurkevics
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