Global land acquisition: neo-colonialism or development opportunity?

By B. Robertson, P. Pinstrup‐Andersen. Food Security, 2010

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The impact of FDI in land in agriculture in developing countries on host country food security (2018, background): “In this perspective, land is a critical factor of production and its global demand has reflected the rediscovery of such a factor as a natural now sought-after resource (Cotula, Vermeulen, Leonard, & Keeley, 2009; Robertson & Pinstrup-Andersen, 2010; UNCTAD, 2009; World Bank, 2010).”
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “…often result from the emergence of new power relationships among the main actors and stakeholders (e.g., the state, investors, and local communities) (Robertson & Pinstrup-Andersen, 2010), which rely on a different ‘‘bundle of powers” rather than just on property rights (Ribot & Peluso, 2003).”
Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “Contract farming can for example enable local farmers to remain on their land and increase their incomes from improved access to better markets, extension support and technologies (Robertson and Pinstrup-Anderson 2010).”
The interconnected challenges for food security from a food regimes perspective: Energy, climate and malconsumption (2013, unknown): “13 Meinzen-Dick 2009), yet this in a country where 76 percent of the population is regarded as undernourished (Robertson and Pinstrup-Andersen 2010).”