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Analyzing the Changes of the Meaning of Customary Land in the Context of Land Grabbing in Malawi
Land, 2021 Ordinary Malawians who live in customary land have been suffering from land grabbing due to their weak and ill-defined land rights. Although Malawi has experienced a number of land reforms that should have contributed to strengthening customary land ...
Yuh-Jin Bae
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Land, 2020 This Special Issue contributes to the debate that land grabbing should be discussed as commons grabbing [...]
Tobias Haller +2 more
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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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Land Grabbing and Jatropha in India: An Analysis of ‘Hyped’ Discourse on the Subject
Land, 2021 In the early 2000s, powerful narratives (re-)emerged around the food–fuel–land nexus, which, combined with the financial, food, and fuel crises of 2007–08, sparked new concerns about the finiteness of our resources and triggered, as well as partially ...
Anika Trebbin
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Land grabbing in Mexico: extent, scale, purpose and novelty
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales, 2017 The expression “land grabbing” has been used to describe large scale land transactions in developing nations; buyers or contractors usually are governments or companies of industrialized nations.
Verónica Vázquez García
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Land-grabbing in and by Brazil: victim and buyer
Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental, 2019 This article intends to analyse the dual role of the Brazil in the phenomenon of Land Grabbing. This paper addresses, in the first chapter, a definition of Land Grabbing, which helps in the delineation of the discourse, then in the second, gives a ...
Giulia Parola, Lodovica Toffoletto
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Land grabs, the agrarian question and the corporate food regime
Canadian Food Studies, 2015 Over the last decade civil society organizations and activist-scholars have pointed to “land grabbing” as one of the central issues to have emerged in the world food system. In particular, land grabbing was identified as a new and immediate international
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
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Review of Los nuevos amos de la tierra. Land Grabbing (Liberti, 2015)
Mundo Amazónico, 2017 Stefano Liberti. 2015. Los nuevos amos de la tierra. Land Grabbing. Bogotá: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. 250 pp. ISBN: 9788430616886. [Título original en italiano: Land Grabbing. Come il mercato delle terre crea il nuovo colonialismo].
Germán Ignacio Ochoa
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016 Even though the principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is soft law, the need to respect, protect and fulfil the rights to be informed and to be involved in development projects is strongly backed in international legal instruments including
Jean-Claude N Ashukem
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Land, 2020 Land acquisition often involves power and displacement and can be carried out on a large scale. There are many forms of land acquisition, including for environmental and conservation purposes as well as for production activities. While green grabbing has
Karina Castro-Arce, Frank Vanclay
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