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Land grabbing in Botswana: Modern era dispossession
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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In cases of land grabbing, the overlap between civil and criminal law has created pre-judicial problems. This has resulted in the discourse of justice among those who anticipate law enforcement through criminal proceedings to be insecure.
Dhinda Ratri Putristira
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Urban Land Grabs in Africa? [PDF]
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]
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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Rethinking land grabbing: a focus on land Pawning in rural Malawi
Land pawning, is a relatively understudied practice in Malawi’s agrarian landscape and broader land scholarship. Our research contextualizes this practice within debates of domestic and global land grabbing.
Loveness Msofi Mgalamadzi +1 more
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LAND GRABBING E CRISE DO CAPITAL: POSSÍVEIS INTERSEÇÕES DOS DEBATES
O artigo aqui apresentado pretendeu realizar uma apreciação tanto do fenômeno recente denominado por land grabbing, comumente traduzido por “apropriação de terras”, bem como das diferentes formulações teóricas acerca do mesmo. Podemos sugerir que após as
Cássio Arruda Boechat +2 more
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The Political Economy of Land Grabbing [PDF]
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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Land grabbing for oil palm: resistance and the fate of peasants in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
The paper analyzes land grabbing, the processes of resistance, and the fates of peasants who sold their land as a result of the expansion of oil palm cultivation in the Northeast of the state of Pará (NEP). This is a qualitative study. 21 semi-structured
Éberton da Costa Moreira +1 more
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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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