Green grabs and biochar: Revaluing African soils and farming in the new carbon economy

By M. Leach, J. Fairhead, J. Fraser. 2012

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Pollution

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Francis Massé
2. E. Lunstrum
3. Catherine A. Corson
4. T. Kuyper

Citations in the corpus

• Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change (2021, unknown): “For example, using biochar (charcoal) to lock carbon into the soil can be seen as implying that unsustain - able practices in one place (fossil fuel emissions) can be repaired by sustainable practices in other places (Fairhead et al., 2012; Leach et al., 2012).”
• Grabbing “Green”: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital (2013, background): “Green grabs can encompass appropriation of land and resources for biofuels (McCarthy et al. 2012), carbon (Leach et al. 2012; Osborne 2011) and biogenetics (Neimark 2012a, b); and while in some instances, they entail complete alienation of peasants from the land, in others they involve changes to…”
• Accumulation by securitization: commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers (2016, background): “…closely related to this paper, the phenomenon of land grabbing (Borras and Franco, 2012; Borras et al., 2012; Hall, 2013; White et al., 2012), along with a variety of neoliberal conservation practices (Benjaminsen and Bryceson, 2012; Corson and MacDonald, 2012; Leach et al., 2012; Sullivan, 2013).”
• Sustainable development goals and inclusive development (2016, background): “…transfer of these resources from local communities to governments, large corporations and the private sector by changing the rules of access to these resources (cf. Zoomers 2010; Fairhead et al. 2012; Leach et al. 2012) which may further exacerbate the vulnerability of the poor (Gupta 2014).”
• Blue Economy and Competing Discourses in International Oceans Governance (2015, unknown): “With nature recognized as valuable to production (e.g., of ecosystem services) and accumulation (e.g., via markets for ecosystem services), the private sector sees and seeks opportunity in conservation, credit, biofuel, sustainable agriculture ventures, and so on (Leach, Fairhead, & Fraser, 2012).”
• The way forward in biochar research: targeting trade‐offs between the potential wins (2015, background): “However, the implementation of biochar technology in Africa can be a contentious © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, GCB Bioenergy, 7, 1–13 issue for a variety of social reasons (for further discussion see Leach et al. 2012).”