The 2008 land grab for food and financial security

By Lran. 2008

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Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012, unknown): “They started to seek control over large tracts of lands overseas to secure food supply (GRAIN 2008). The principal target is Africa where vast empty lands are thought to be available, cheaply. It is generally assumed that 70 percent of all lands that were grabbed, estimated by Oxfam to be 227 millio”
Land grabs, land control, and Southeast Asian crop booms (2011, methodology): “The analytical framework proposed and material covered in this paper derive in part from work done jointly with Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li in Hall et al. (2011). An earlier version was presented to the LDPI International Conference on Global Land Grabbing at the University of Sussex in April ”
Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction (2011, background): “The pace and extent of these land deals has been rapid and widespread (GRAIN 2008).”
‘Land grab’ as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia (2012, background): “…on the international drivers of a wave of recent land transactions in developing countries—in particular the crises of finance, food, fuel and climate (GRAIN 2008, Cotula et al. 2009, McMichael 2010, Zoomers 2010, De Schutter 2011)—but has thus far paid little attention to the motivations of…”