Patterns of agrarian transformation in Ethiopia: State-mediated commercialisation and the ‘land grab’

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‘Land grab’ as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia (2012, background): “2009 , Daniel and Mittal 2010 , The Oakland Institute 2011 , Lavers forthcoming ).”
Frontiers of Commodification: State Lands and Their Formalization (2015, background): “…policy and practice have reproduced narratives of emptiness and frontiers in Ethiopia, labeling the southern lowland regions ‘‘peripheral zones,’’ ‘‘wildernesses,’’ ‘‘wastelands,’’ ‘‘no-man’s lands,’’ and then, by legal default, ‘‘state land’’ (Lavers 2012; Makki and Geisler 2011; Alden-Wily 2012).”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “Tom Lavers ( 2012 , this volume), addressing the case of Ethiopia, contests the understanding of the ‘land grab’ as a neo-colonial process, and instead locates the expansion of foreign land-based investment within the Ethiopian government's export-led development strategy.”