‘Land grab’ as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia

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Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study (2014, background): “See also work by Lavers (2012) and Mosley (2012) on Ethiopia.”
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “…out in various ways, with a variety of proximate and distal causes (Messerli, Giger, Dwyer, Breu, & Eckert, 2014; Scheidel & Sorman, 2012), and are often responsible for the transformation and redefinition of land regimes through both formal and informal routes (Adnan, 2013; Lavers, 2012a, 2012b).”
Patterns of agrarian transformation in Ethiopia: State-mediated commercialisation and the ‘land grab’ (2012, background): “The livelihood distinction between those involved in settled agriculture, and pastoralism and shifting cultivation also overlaps with ethnic divisions and a history of exploitation of the periphery by the state (Lavers 2012).”