Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa.
By L. Cotula, Sonja J. Vermeulen, R. Leonard, James Keeley. 2009
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Citations in the corpus
- The sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems: Political analysis of the interplay between security, resource scarcity, political systems and global trade (2011, background): “According to a joint study by the FAO, the International Institute for Environment and Development, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, there have been since 2004 nearly 2.5 million hectares worth of ‘approved land allocations’ in just five African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Ma”
- Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People (2010, background): “This external investment in developingcountry agriculture may bring major benefits, especially where investors bring considerable improvements to crop production and processing, but only if the rights and welfare of the tenants and existing resource users are properly addressed (31).”
- The Global Web of National Water Security (2011, background): “The concern did lead – in the wake of the 2008 cereal price spike – to agricultural ‘land grabs’, for example in Sudan (Cotula et al., 2009).”
- Land grabbing in Southern Africa: the many faces of the investor rush (2011, background): “2009 ), suggesting that IFPRI's global estimate may have under-represented the scale of such acquisitions.”
- Global land acquisition: neo-colonialism or development opportunity? (2010, unknown): “Development aid deficits are driving the lessor country to make tracts of land available for foreign investment (Cotula et al. 2009).”
- China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse (2012, background): “2009 , von Braun and Meinzen‐Dick 2009, Borras et al .”