Fuelling exclusion? The biofuels boom and poor people's access to land.

By L. Cotula, N. Dyer, Sonja J. Vermeulen. 2008

313 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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1. S. Bringezu
2. Sonja J. Vermeulen
3. P. McMichael
4. T. Heimann
5. A. Gasparatos
6. H. Schütz
7. L. Cotula
8. J. Finnan

Citations in the corpus

• Agrofuels in the food regime (2010, background): “In many cases, lands perceived to be idle, under-utilised, marginal or abandoned by government and large private operators provide a vital basis for the livelihoods of poorer and vulnerable groups, including through crop farming, herding and gathering of wild products’ (Cotula et al. 2008, 22–3).”
• Bioeconomy and SDGs: Does the Bioeconomy Support the Achievement of the SDGs? (2019, background): “Furthermore, the switch HEIMANN 52 of farmers from food crops toward biomass production for industrial purposes increases their dependencies on international agricultural commodity prices (Cotula et al., 2008).”
• The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss (2016, unknown): “However, even when it is, concerns may arise from conflicts over land seizure and violence in some areas [35, 36].”
• Assessing global land use : balancing consumption with sustainable supply (2014, background): “Early experiences with biofuel production in countries like Tanzania, Mozambique, India and Colombia have show-cased land acquisitions through illegitimate land titles, water access denied to local farmers, inadequate compensation agreements and displacement of local communities by force (Cotula et ”
• Biofuel, land access and rural livelihoods in Tanzania (2009, unknown): “In addition, expansion of biofuel production may lead to other negative impacts such as environmental damage, for example due to deforestation or industrial pollution, and indirect impacts from rising food prices where food crops are cultivated for biofuel production (Cotula et al., 2008).”
• Global land acquisition: neo-colonialism or development opportunity? (2010, unknown): “Compounding this profit potential are commitments by global governments—including China, India, Brazil, the US and the EU—to increase available biofuels to offset reliance on petrol used in the transportation sector (Cotula et al. 2008, 2009).”
• Biofuels in sub-Sahara Africa: drivers, impacts and priority policy areas (2015, background): “This included the displacement of poor families, elite capture of land, loss of land rights through coercion (or provision of false/selective information) or even aggressive land seizures [5].”
• Bioenergy from “surplus” land: environmental and socio-economic implications (2012, background): “…and consideration of economic, environmental and social factors are needed to calculate and develop surplus land potentials (depending on the country context and regional conditions) and to avoid allocation of lands on which local user groups depend for their livelihoods (Cotula et al. 2008).”
• The land grab and corporate food regime restructuring (2012, background): “27This is also the case elsewhere, such as in Southeast Asia – see e.g. Cotula et al. (2008).”