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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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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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Human rights aspects and Soil governance. A special focus on land grabbing
Soil Security, 2022 This chapter provides the reader with a general overview about the nexus between women, indigenous peoples’ land tenure rights and land governance issues.
Giuseppe Poderati
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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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Estudos Internacionais, 2018 A partir de 2008 intensifica-se em escala global o interesse na apropriação de terras para a produção agrícola e/ou especulação imobiliária. Tal processo gerou impactos em diferentes esferas e a inserção do tema do land grabbing - nos seus diferentes ...
Lorena Izá Pereira
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 This paper presents a political ecology analysis of intergenerational land dynamics in cashew-producing areas of Ghana’s Brong Ahafo Region. In particular, the paper explores how the growing commercialisation of cashew production for export is driving ...
James Boafo, Thomas Yeboah
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, 2023 In current debates on land and resource grabbing, the question of urban land deserves, but has not attracted, sufficient attention. By the same token, debates on global urbanization and sustainable urban transitions only generally mention land in the side-lines. This chapter places attention on the emerging concept of ‘urban land grab’ and examines the
Otsuki, Kei +3 more
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Water Grabbing in Colonial Perspective: Land and Water in Israel/Palestine
Water Alternatives, 2012 'Water grabbing' and 'land grabbing' have been referred to as a new colonialism, dispossessing small farmers and indigenous people of land and water for the sake of investors. The current 'grabbing' is driven by perceived scarcity of food and sustainable
Stephen Gasteyer +3 more
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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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Untitled public forestlands threaten Amazon conservation
Nature Communications, 2023 A large proportion of recent Brazilian Amazon deforestation is occurring on untitled public forestlands through land grabbing. This emerging risk demands long-term conservation strategies.
Paulo Moutinho, Claudia Azevedo-Ramos
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