Land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia: the world’s largest agricultural land reserves at stake

By Oane Visser, M. Spoor. 2011

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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The land grab and corporate food regime restructuring (2012, background): “25 Visser and Spoor ( 2011 ) rightly underscore the strategic significance of Eastern European lands (notably in Kazakhstan, the Ukraine and Siberia) where Northern investors and Southern states grab large agricultural land reserves – allowing land grabbing food regime circuits their managed univers”
Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012, unknown): “Visser and Spoor (2011) identify the former Soviet Eurasia, and Borras and Franco (2011) Southeast Asia,”
Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union (2013, background): “Given the recent rises in global agricultural commodity prices, abandoned agricultural land in post-socialist countries today represents an attractive source of income and increasingly becomes a target for investors (Deininger 2011, Visser and Spoor 2011).”
The Drivers of Maize Area Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa. How Policies to Boost Maize Production Overlook the Interests of Smallholder Farmers (2020, unknown): “For example, data collection is often based on media reports and crowdsourcing, which can result in a bias towards a particular region (mostly Africa) or actors (like China) [29–31] and exclude fully domestic acquisitions [32].”
China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse (2012, unknown): “2008 , Sainsbury 2011 , Scherer 2011 , Sedgman 2011 , Shi 2008, Shun 2008 , Smith 2011 , Smith 2010 , Smith and Talbot 2009 , Spencer 2008 , Stack 2011 , Sudan Tribune 2010, The Economist 2011, The Guardian 2008, Times of Zambia 2010 , TVNZ 2010 , UNCTAD 2009 , UNOHCHR 2007/2004, Urquhar”
The international political economy of the global land rush: A critical appraisal of trends, scale, geography and drivers (2012, background): “For example, based on media reports (or research drawing on media reports), Visser and Spoor ( 2011 ) documented the significant level of FDI interest in farmland in Ukraine, Russia and – to a lesser extent – Kazakhstan.”
Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach (2013, unknown): “Insecure land tenure, restrictions imposing a minimum farm size in some regions (Visser and Spoor, 2011), and lack of capital, skills and/or entrepreneurial spirit (Ioffe et al., 2004) can prevent smaller farms from reclaiming or even maintaining activities on cropland.”
Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves: understanding land grabbing in Russia (2012, methodology): “Foreign land acquisitions are clearly on the rise in Russia since the mid-2000s (Visser and Spoor 2011a), although already in the mid-1990s some Western companies attempted to enter Russian agribusiness.”
Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction (2011, background): “…thwarted deal in Madagascar that brought down the government (Cotula et al. 2009), while major areas are being targeted for commodity crops, fuel crops, investment, and ecosystem services in South America, Central America, Southeast Asia, and the former USSR (Zoomers 2010, Visser and Spoor 2011).”