The Green Rush: the Global Race for Farmland and the Rights of Land Users

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Contemporary processes of large-scale land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa: legal deficiency or elite capture of the rule of law? (2013, background): “…to enhance productivity through increased agricultural investment, stimulate the development of a land market, or make important contributions to Africa’s 1 macroeconomic and poverty indices (Cotula, Vermeulen, Leonard, & Keeley, 2009; de Schutter, 2011a; Poulton et al., 2008; World Bank, 2011).”
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “This power imbalance emerges when a traditional system of production needs to compete with new economic models (De Schutter, 2011a).”
The Militarisation and Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict’ (2014, background): “De Schutter states, ‘Measures adopted to mitigate climate change or for environmental conservation have created further pressures on land’, stating that REDD+, ‘may represent a threat to the forest-dwellers, who have only weakly recognized customary rights over the forests they depend on for their l”
How not to think of land-grabbing: three critiques of large-scale investments in farmland (2011, background): “It developed in two phases (De Schutter 2011).”