Challenges posed by the new wave of farmland investment

By K. Deininger. 2011

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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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): “At the close of the World Bank’s Annual Conference on Land and Poverty in 2011, for example, World Bank Development Research Group lead economic Klaus Deininger (2011) declared that, “A consensus has emerged among stakeholders that improving land governance for the poor should be the top priority .…”
China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse (2012, neutral): “In the first debate, the alleged merits or threats of ‘land grabs’ have resulted in various studies over the past years (see for example Deininger 2011 , Bush et al .”
‘Land grab’ as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia (2012, background): “As such, the government invokes a narrative on land use and so-called ‘marginal lands’ which has been commonly used to justify ‘land grabs’ by host governments, agro-businesses and observers who see potential benefits from these land deals (Deininger and Byerlee 2010, Deininger 2011).”
Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources (2012, background): “In recent years, much media, academic and policy attention has focused on the rapid growth of largescale land deals around the world (see GRAIN, 2008; von Braun and Meinzen-Dick, 2009; Cotula et al., 2009; Borras and Franco, 2010; World Bank, 2010; Zoomers, 2010; Deininger, 2011; De Schutter, 2011; ”
Land grabs, land control, and Southeast Asian crop booms (2011, background): “This dynamic shows clear overlap with the widely noted fact that a large number of land grab projects have thus far gone unimplemented (Deininger 2011 , 224), though the reasons for failure to plant are likely different.”
Structural transformation or elite land capture? The growth of “emergent” farmers in Zambia (2014, background): “By structuring the systems for allocating titled land in ways that have a tendency to limit existing smallholder participation and to attract individuals from outside the agricultural sector, such as urban wage earners or retired civil servants, there is an increased probability that the land will b”
Regime shifts limit the predictability of land-system change (2014, background): “4), in part driven by the increasing demand that resulted from biofuel mandates (Deininger, 2011), combined with improvements of infrastructural conditions (downward-pointing arrow in Fig.”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “At one pole are those who think that corporate land acquisitions can be harnessed as opportunity for development (see, e.g. World Bank 2010, Deininger 2011).”
Situating private equity capital in the land grab debate (2012, methodology): “…Klaus Deininger argues that, given its sparsely populated regions, the suitability of its land for cultivation, and its relatively high yield gap, sub-Saharan African countries present perhaps the most appropriate ‘country type’ for outside investment to foster local development (Deininger 2011).”
The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, methodology): “The confluence of the commodity crises of the mid 2000s exposed structural long-term global food and energy security issues (Deininger, 2011; McMichael, 2012).”
The politics of agrofuels and mega-land and water deals: insights from the ProCana case, Mozambique (2011, background): “Klaus Deininger (2011) of the World Bank estimates these available lands to be somewhere between a minimum of 445 million ha and a maximum of 1.7 billion ha, with a significant portion of these located in Africa.”
New investment, old challenges. Land deals and the water constraint in African agriculture (2012, background): “Deininger 2011, 218). Also, government officials will inevitably be involved in authorising and registering the terms of the investment that usually involve a leasehold contract, often with a central government agency if the area involved is large. However, it is less often the case that existing la”
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture (2012, background): “Whereas the International Food Policy Research Institute estimates that 20 million ha of land were sold for land grabs between 2005 and 2009, the World Bank calculates that around 57 million ha have attracted foreign interest (Von Braun and Meinzen-Dick 2009, Deininger 2011).”
Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis (2012, background): “In absolute terms, the World Bank (2010) has come up with an estimate of between 445 million and 1.7 billion hectares worldwide of potentially ‘suitable’ lands assumed to be ‘marginal’, ‘underutilized’, ‘empty’ and ‘available’, most of which are classified as public lands (Deininger 2011).”
Conservation, green/blue grabbing and accumulation by dispossession in Tanzania (2012, background): “…burst of international attention to ‘global land grabbing’ has mostly focused on large-scale land deals and direct foreign investments in food and biofuel production (e.g. Von Braun and Meinzen-Dick 2009, Vermeulen and Cotula 2010, Deininger 2011, De Schutter 2011, Lambin and Meyfroidt 2011).”