Over the heads of local people: consultation, consent, and recompense in large-scale land deals for biofuels projects in Africa

By Sonja J. Vermeulen, L. Cotula. 2010

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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‘Roundtabling’ sustainability: Lessons from the biofuel industry (2014, background): “Mirroring the skewed North-South geographic distribution of MSC certification in capture fisheries (see Ponte 2012), of the 1128 ISCC certificates valid as of November 2012: 76% have been issued to operators based in Europe (fairly evenly spread-out, but with substantial presence in Eastern Europe),”
Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Keynote presentation. (2016, background): “Even though the implementation of negotiations between communities and investors bears many risks (Vermeulen and Cotula, 2010), case study evidence suggests that the participation 164 C.”
Biofuel sustainability and the formation of transnational hybrid governance (2015, background): “Several studies highlighted problematic aspects of land investments, little benefit for local communities, lack of participation in decision-making at the local level, and environmental degradation (see, among many others, Vermeulen and Cotula 2010, Clancy 2013).”
Finance for agriculture or agriculture for finance (2015, background): “…have been associated in many cases with loss of land rights for small scale producers and ecological impacts of the introduction of large-scale industrial agricultural production, as we have seen in the case of land acquisitions for biofuel operations (Vermeulen and Cotula 2010; McMichael 2010).”
International political economy: A field born of the OPEC crisis returns to its energy roots (2014, background): “12 Biofuels raise a broad range of land-related issues, including the role of community, identity, territoriality, land enclosures, and corporate-state relations, issues that have been researched and published, notably, in Journal of Peasant Studies, a top-ranked journal in Anthropology and Planning”
Contemporary processes of large-scale land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa: legal deficiency or elite capture of the rule of law? (2013, background): “Applicable land legislation in each focal country contains provisions for consultation but not for consent, signifying the failure to confer any authority on affected parties to veto or shape the terms of the investment (Vermeulen & Cotula, 2010).”
Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “Research in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Mali showed that if consultation did take place, it was dominated by a few elders or chiefs and provided little to no ability to shape key decisions (Vermeulen and Cotula 2010).”
Conservation, green/blue grabbing and accumulation by dispossession in Tanzania (2012, background): “…burst of international attention to ‘global land grabbing’ has mostly focused on large-scale land deals and direct foreign investments in food and biofuel production (e.g. Von Braun and Meinzen-Dick 2009, Vermeulen and Cotula 2010, Deininger 2011, De Schutter 2011, Lambin and Meyfroidt 2011).”
The politics of agrofuels and mega-land and water deals: insights from the ProCana case, Mozambique (2011, background): “This has put the entire consultation process in serious question, and the issue of accountability in a cloud of doubt (also Vermeulen and Cotula 2010).”