Creating a public tool to assess and promote transparency in global land deals: the experience of the Land Matrix

By W. Anseeuw, J. Lay, Peter Messerli, Markus Giger, Michael Taylor. 2013

132 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. I. Scoones
2. R. Hall
3. Wendy Wolford
4. Peter Messerli
5. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
6. B. White
7. G. Schoneveld
8. Paolo D'Odorico

In Soil Science

1. I. Scoones
2. Wendy Wolford
3. R. Hall
4. Peter Messerli
5. B. White
6. G. Schoneveld
7. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
8. Paolo D'Odorico

Citations in the corpus

• The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “Since it now publishes data sources, it was argued that users are better positioned to make their own judgment about data quality (Anseeuw et al., 2013).”
• Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Keynote presentation. (2016, background): “We define LSLAs as transfers of rights to use, control, or own land from smallholder households or communities to corporate actors (e.g. commercial firms, public investment funds) through sale, lease, or concession of areas larger than 200 ha (Anseeuw et al., 2013).”
• The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “It suffers, however, from some conceptual, definitional, and methodological limitations (Anseeuw et al., 2013), and information that is crucial to the analysis of commons grabbing (e.g., property regimes, previous systems of production, power relations, and use of violence and conflict) is not…”
• Food appropriation through large scale land acquisitions (2014, background): “This data set includes both international and domestic acquisitions of land parcels greater than 200 ha in the years subsequent to 2000, though most of the deals took place after 2008 (Anseeuw et al 2013).”
• The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush (2013, background): “(GRAIN 2013) Anseeuw et al. (2013) describe the role of the Land Matrix partnership as being ‘to promote transparency and open data in decision-making over land and investment, as a step towards greater accountability’.”