Global resource grabs, agribusiness concentration and the smallholder: two West African case studies

By K. Amanor. 2012

157 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Paolo D'Odorico
2. P. Peters
3. R. Hall
4. V. Manyong
5. I. Scoones
6. T. Abdoulaye
7. A. Alene

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. P. Peters
2. I. Scoones
3. R. Hall
4. Wendy Wolford
5. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
6. B. White
7. Paolo D'Odorico
8. J. Dell’Angelo

In Soil Science

1. P. Peters
2. I. Scoones
3. R. Hall
4. Wendy Wolford
5. B. White
6. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
7. Paolo D'Odorico
8. J. Dell’Angelo

Citations in the corpus

• The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “This implies that commons grabbing is a phenomenon happening with a direct government intervention in these types of investments, and it supports the assertion that there is an ongoing process of global agricultural restructuring that favors large-scale over small-scale agriculture (Amanor, 2012).”
• Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “Yet these characteristics build on longer-term processes, variously seen as due to ‘the logic of agribusiness accumulation’ (Amanor 2012, 732) or ‘the latest stage in [the] competition for control of land and other natural resources’ across Africa (Woodhouse 2012, 777), or, more broadly still, as…”
• The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “Kojo Amanor ( 2012 , this volume) analyses critically the prevalent tendency of neoliberal understandings of large-scale estate agriculture in Africa, as an ‘aberration’ brought about by Asian and Middle Eastern investors.”
• African Rural Youth Engagement in Agribusiness: Achievements, Limitations, and Lessons (2019, result): “For instance, active participation of all group members in decision-making processes was associated with cooperation problems amongst members and lowered the performance of youth groups working in agribusiness in Ethiopia [42].”
• Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012, unknown): “Other challenges have been raised by Amanor (2012) on the role of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and global commodity chains, Hall (2011) on pre-existing crop boom-bust cycles, McMichael (2012) on the location of land grabs in the restructuring of the global food regime, Woodhouse and Ganho…”