Essays about: "large-scale land acquisition"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 17 essays containing the words large-scale land acquisition.

  1. 6. Materialisation of emergent farmers in a Malawian context : a privileged class’ positioning in agricultural transformation

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Gustav Broms; [2020]
    Keywords : capital accumulation; surplus value; food regime; patronage; differentiation; livelihood; diversification; food security;

    Abstract : Emergent farmers have rapidly increased in numbers on the sub-Saharan African continent during the last couple of decades. The main interest in this study lies in how emergent farmers have materialised as a class in a political economic context and historical process and what societal impact they have had. READ MORE

  3. 7. Exploring complex pathways in the climate change, vulnerability and conflict nexus in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Caroline Long; Markus Hatting; [2018]
    Keywords : Climate Change; Violent Conflict; Vulnerability; Adaptive Capacity; Fragility; Resilience; Governance; Land-grabbing; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The climate change and conflict nexus has been the focus of much debate and speculation in academic circles as well as public discourse. Much of the existing research has been undertaken by studies using quantitative methods, which intend to prove or disprove the existence of a causal relationship. READ MORE

  4. 8. Identifying large-scale land acquisitions and their agro-ecological consequences : a remote sensing based study in Ghana

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Jenny Hansson; [2017]
    Keywords : remote sensing; land acquisition; physical geography and ecosystem analysis; Ghana; agro-ecology; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Today there are more than 45 million hectares (ha) of concluded large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in the low- and middle- income countries around the globe. Whether LSLA is referred to as land grabbing or land investment, LSLA means that the right to utilise land is moved from the local people to investors. READ MORE

  5. 9. Unregulated Land Grab Through Legal Processes : A review of the different claims to land

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Philip Martinsson; Love Vos; [2017]
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    Abstract : The rise and deepening of economic globalization has highlighted a closer connection between international arrangements that governs global capital flow on the one hand, and acquisition of land and natural resources on the other. These shifts of political economy underpin how international investment law has created contrasting social dimensions of how land rights remain embedded in many societies. READ MORE

  6. 10. Biofuel Production : Examining the development of sub-Saharan Africa through the concepts of land grabbing, environmental justice and different views on development theories

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Miljövetenskap

    Author : Oskar Fredrikson; [2017]
    Keywords : Biofuel; environmental justice; land grabbing; sub-Saharan Africa;

    Abstract : This paper examines and problematize the effects of biofuel production by focusing on local communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The premise lays in a critique of neoliberal thoughts of development and the concept of sustainable development. READ MORE