The international political economy of the global land rush: A critical appraisal of trends, scale, geography and drivers

By L. Cotula. 2012

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “Moreover, due to the opacity of deals that involve land and lack of reliable and publically accessible information, such reports tend to rely heavily on (what is often alarmist or speculative) media reports or crowd-sourcing, which also introduces a selection bias (Schoneveld, 2011; Cotula, 2012; Oy”
Creating a public tool to assess and promote transparency in global land deals: the experience of the Land Matrix (2013, methodology): “Another example concerns the biases caused by the 200- ha threshold applied by the LM, which results in a greater focus on foreign deals (larger in size), while minimizing domestic transactions (Cotula 2012, Schönweger et al. 2012).”
The political economy of negative emissions technologies: consequences for international policy design (2018, neutral): “Further, concerns over ‘ land grabs ’ by government agencies, agribusiness or sovereign wealth funds further eroded the reputation of biofuels (Cotula, 2012).”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “Lorenzo Cotula has critically reviewed the available body of evidence, pointing to sources of both over- and under-estimation, but confirming that ‘the phenomenon is massive and growing’ (Cotula, 2012, this volume)2.”
Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “Although media reports tend to focus upon instances of outright land purchases, most deals in the land rush consist of long-term leases (Borras et al. 2012, Cotula 2012).”
Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources (2012, background): “phenomenon involving capital from the North, South, East and West, from wealthy and middle-income states, and involving many intra-regional transactions and acquisitions by national elites as well (Cotula, 2012; Visser et al., 2012; Kenney-Lazar, 2012).”
Food appropriation through large scale land acquisitions (2014, background): “Productive agricultural land is becoming an increasingly precious asset (Cotula 2012).”
‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance (2014, background): “Several excellent macro-level overviews of land grabbing (Cotula 2012, McMichael 2012, White et al. 2012) have signaled the importance of financial processes but have not elaborated much on their role.”
Solar power, state power, and the politics of energy transition in pre-Saharan Morocco (2016, background): “Scholars have identified this demand as a driver of the emerging land grab, and the demand will only increase as renewables with large territorial footprints become more widely adopted (Cotula, 2012; Scheidel and Sorman, 2012).”
Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study (2014, positive): “There is a wide range of different figures regarding the scale of the deals, their trends and the factors that drive them (Cotula, 2012, 2013; Oya, 2013b). Yet the evidence base remains patchy. Online databases run by the non-governmental organisation GRAIN and by the Land Matrix consortium led by t”
How and why chiefs formalise land use in recent times: the politics of land dispossession through biofuels investments in Ghana (2014, background): “in land acquisitions in their home countries (Zoomers 2010; Hall 2011; Cotula 2012), the mediating role of local social institutions in land deals seldom features prominently.”
Agrarian structure, foreign investment in land, and land prices in Brazil (2012, background): “Sugarcane crops directed primarily to ethanol and agroindustrial production present a clear case of foreignization in terms of production and processing, perhaps less so in terms of large-scale land acquisition (Cotula 2012 ) but on agriculture and its products.”
Global land governance: from territory to flow? (2013, background): “Concerns over food security have caused large-scale land acquisitions by states, transnational corporations and financial investors [3,4].”
Agriculture and the Generation Problem: Rural Youth, Employment and the Future of Farming (2012, background): “The main findings emerging from these studies are discussed in Cotula (2012).”