Contemporary processes of large-scale land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa: legal deficiency or elite capture of the rule of law?

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The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “Food Policy (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.03.007 (continued) Origin of lead Data quality categories Total Number of projectsCategory 1 Category 2 Category 1 (conditional) Zimbabwe 13,000 13,000 1 Finland 19,600 19,600 1 Luxembourg 23,000 23,000 1 UAE 25,983 25,983 2 Kenya 27,885 2”
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “The problem should be redressed either with legal reforms aiming at strengthening common-property regimes (Wily, 2011a, 2011b) or by developing alternatives to these investments (De Schutter, 2011a, 2011b; German et al., 2013).”
Large Farm Establishment, Smallholder Productivity, Labor Market Participation, and Resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “As both aspects lower the benefits and increase the risks of large production-related investment, studies often find it to lead to ambiguous or even negative effects (German et al. 2013; Schoneveld 2014).”