How not to think of land-grabbing: three critiques of large-scale investments in farmland

By O. Schutter. 2011

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Law, Soil Science

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Patterns of agrarian transformation in Ethiopia: State-mediated commercialisation and the ‘land grab’ (2012, background): “Existing research has identified crises of finance, fuel, food and climate as important drivers of recent investment processes (GRAIN 2008, Cotula et al. 2009, McMichael 2010, Zoomers 2010, De Schutter 2011).”
Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis (2012, background): “…is needed, whether through the Responsible Agricultural Investments (RAI) principles put forward by the World Bank, UNCTAD, IFAD and FAO, or through theVoluntary Guidelines being advocated by social movements and NGOs within the Committee on Food Security (CFS) of the FAO (see de Schutter 2011).”
China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse (2012, neutral): “2011 , De Schutter 2011 , Borras and Franco forthcoming 2012).”
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “This power imbalance emerges when a traditional system of production needs to compete with new economic models (De Schutter, 2011a).”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “2012), the JPS ‘Forum on Global Land Grabbing’ featuring contributions by Deininger, de Schutter and Li (Borras et al. 2011, Deininger 2011, De Schutter 2011, Li 2011), as well as the special issue under review at Development and change on Governing global land deals: The role of the state in the…”
Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investment: Conceptual Considerations and Estimated Employment Effects (2017, background): “On the other hand, it is considered an opportunity to include local farmers in development processes in the context of large-scale land investments (De Schutter, 2011; Robertson & PinstrupAndersen, 2010).”
Agriculture and the Generation Problem: Rural Youth, Employment and the Future of Farming (2012, background): “De Schutter therefore argues that: Land investments implying an important shift in land rights should represent the last and least desirable option, acceptable only if no other investment model can achieve a similar contribution to local development (De Schutter 2011, emphasis added).”
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (2013, background): “Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land acquisitions for the purposes of securing access to the means of producing natural resource commodities (see Borras et al., 2011; Deininger et al., 2011; de Schutter, 2011).”
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): “…of agri-food companies, commodity traders, pension funds, and nationally-owned investment banks buying land in other countries for eventual large-scale food and resource production in response to food security concerns and food speculation (McMichael 2010, Borras et al. 2011, de Schutter 2011).”
Contextualising land grabbing: contemporary land deals, the global subsistence crisis and the world food system (2012, background): “agro-ecological modes of production that are both productive and sustainable and which contribute to the progressive realisation of the human right to adequate food (De Schutter 2011b).(9) As de Schutter stresses, the code of conduct narrows a complex issue, rendering as merely technical points (Li ”
Land expropriation and displacement in Bangladesh (2012, neutral): “( 2011 ), De Schutter ( 2011 ) and Peluso and Lund ( 2011 ).”
The politics of agrofuels and mega-land and water deals: insights from the ProCana case, Mozambique (2011, background): “In whatever scenario, they call for clearer laws, rules and regulations about consultation of and participation by the local communities to ensure that the main interests of the affected local communities are protected and promoted (Deininger 2011 ; see De Schutter 2011 , Li 2011 , Borras and Fra”