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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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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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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart +3 more
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iMetaOmics, EarlyView.Estuaries are vital hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) due to substantial antibiotic pollution. Although viruses have been proposed as key reservoirs and important disseminators of ARGs in environments, their contribution to the estuarine antibiotic resistome remains largely unknown.
Xiao‑Qing Luo +9 more
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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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, 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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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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Acting authentically: Using play to cultivate authentic interrelating in role performance
Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.Summary Research is increasingly demonstrating that authenticity and human connection are fundamental and interrelated human needs. However, organizational roles often constrain authenticity and connection in workplace interactions, especially roles that are highly scripted.
Lyndon E. Garrett
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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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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores how we might integrate local traditional values into a systems approach for analyzing and maximizing localization in the context of foreign aid. The paper situates localization and its operationalization in the older and broader literature on the political economy of foreign aid.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
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