Transnational land deals for agriculture in the global south : analytical report based on the Land Matrix database

By W. Anseeuw, Mathieu Boche, Thomas Breu, Markus Giger, J. Lay, Peter Messerli, K. Nolte. 2012

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The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “…is focused exclusively on sub-Saharan Africa; on the one hand, since early insights suggest it is a key investment beneficiary (World Bank, 2011; Anseeuw et al., 2012a,b), while on the other, since the prevalence of relative insecure customary property regimes and weak governance systems…”
Food appropriation through large scale land acquisitions (2014, background): “In fact, most of the research on LSLAs has concentrated on the quantitative assessment of the land (Anseeuw et al 2012, 2013), the associated water resources and their geographic distribution (Rulli et al 2013, Rulli and D’Odorico 2013).”
Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Keynote presentation. (2016, unknown): “In line with the Land Matrix criteria (Anseeuw et al., 2012), we focus on recent LSLAs that have been implemented since 2000.”
The Drivers of Maize Area Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa. How Policies to Boost Maize Production Overlook the Interests of Smallholder Farmers (2020, unknown): “For example, data collection is often based on media reports and crowdsourcing, which can result in a bias towards a particular region (mostly Africa) or actors (like China) [29–31] and exclude fully domestic acquisitions [32].”
The Political Economy of Agricultural Extension Policy in Ethiopia: Economic Growth and Political Control (2014, unknown): “The analysis in this paragraph, whilst persuasive historically, is potentially challenged by the recent phenomenon of large-scale land deals in Ethiopia (Rahmato, 2011; Anseeuw et al., 2012).”
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change (2017, background): “cases revive) large colonial estates and state farms (Hall et al. 2015; Anseeuw et al. 2012; White et al. 2012).”
Fossil fuel depletion and socio-economic scenarios: An integrated approach (2014, background): “The foreseeable growth of land for food over the next few decades (due to population and affluence growth) is projected to be 200–750 MHa (Balmford et al., 2005; Bruinsma, 2003; Rockström et al., 2007; Schade and Pimentel, 2010), while the projected growth of new infrastructures because of populatio”