"Land grabbing" by foreign investors in developing countries: Risks and opportunities

By Joachim von Braun, Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick. 2009

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Research, part of a Special Feature on Local, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels Land-based Investments for Rural Development? A Grounded Analysis of the Local Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Plantations in Ghana (2011, background): “…the most direct contribution of large-scale plantation projects to rural development is arguably in the generation of new sources of income, for example, by leasing out land, participating in outgrower schemes, and plantation employment (FAO 2008, von Braun and Meinzen-Dick 2009, World Bank 2010a).”
Over the heads of local people: consultation, consent, and recompense in large-scale land deals for biofuels projects in Africa (2010, background): “For instance, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) estimated that between 15 and 20 million ha of farmland in developing countries have changed hands since 2006 (von Braun and Meinzen-Dick 2009).”
Land concentration and accumulation after redistributive reform in post-settler Zimbabwe (2011, background): “The land deals allegedly represent a supply response to the recent ‘world food price crisis’ mainly by emerging economies, a rational response by investors to the rising profitability of farming (von Braun and Meinzen-Dick 2009, Wahenga 2007), and demands for ‘clean’ agro-fuels (Mitchell 2008).”
The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, methodology): “…growing global populations, changing consumption patterns, finite fossil fuel supplies, and climate change, security of access to natural resources to produce essential reproductive goods is becoming an economic imperative (von Braun and Meinzen-Dick, 2009; Zoomers, 2010; de Schutter, 2011).”
Patterns of agrarian transformation in Ethiopia: State-mediated commercialisation and the ‘land grab’ (2012, background): “…are frequently not adhered to in many flower farms, posing health risks for farmworkers (Haddis 2007), and contributing to pollution of water bodies used for drinking water by local communities and their livestock (Tadele 2009). productivity (Cotula et al. 2009, von Braun and Meinzen-Dick 2009).”
The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush (2013, background): “…International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (Cotula et al. 2009), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (von Braun and Meinzen-Dick 2009), Oxfam (2010), the Oakland Institute (Daniel and Mittal 2009, Oakland Institute 2011), the International Land Coalition…”
Food Security in the Face of Salinity, Drought, Climate Change, and Population Growth (2016, background): “This is both a means of circumventing the water-limited agricultural systems of the investing countries (essentially importing water already processed through plants into food), and an expression of their distrust of the function of the global market place (Von Braun and Meinzen-Dick, 2009).”
Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources (2012, background): “…have tended to focus on minimising these 'risks' through the creation of mechanisms to apply international standards via a code of conduct (cf. von Braun and Meinzen-Dick, 2009), or principles of responsible agricultural investments (see, e.g. World Bank et al., 2010), or initiatives for improved…”