The Global Land Grab: Beyond the Hype

ISBN-13: 9781780328942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Annelies Zoomers;Mayke Kaag

Opis

The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of 'land grabbing' - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South. It is a phenomenon against which locals seem defenseless, and one about which multilateral organizations such as the World Bank as well as civil-society organizations and action NGOs have become increasingly vocal. This in-depth and empirically diverse volume - taking in case studies from across Africa, Asia and Latin America - takes a step back from the hype to explore a number of key question: Does the 'Global Land Grab' actually exist? If so, what is new about it? And what, beyond the immediately visible dynamics and practices, are the real problems? A comprehensive and much-needed intervention on one of the most hotly contested but little-understood issues facing Global South countries today.

Spis treści

Introduction: the global land grab hype - and why it is important to move beyond - Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers Part I: Africa 1. Modernizing the periphery: citizenship and Ethiopia's new agricultural investment policies - George Schoneveld and Maru Shete 2. Large-scale land acquisitions in Tanzania: a critical analysis of practices and dynamics - Jumanne Abdallah, Linda Engström, Kjell Havnevik and Lennart Salomonsson 3. Kenya and the 'global land grab: a view from below - Jacqueline M. Klopp and Odenda Lumumba Part II: Latin America 4. The rapid expansion of genetically modified soy production into the Chaco region of Argentina - Lucia Goldfarb and Annelies Zoomers 5. Transnational land investment in Costa Rica: tracing residential tourism and its implications for development - Femke van Noorloos 6. Water grabbing in the Andean region: illustrative cases from Peru and Ecuador - Rutgerd Boelens, Antonio Gaybor and Jan Hendriks Part III: Asia 7. Land governance and oil palm development: examples from Riau Province, Indonesia - Ari Susanti and Suseno Budidarsono 8. Vietnam in the debate on land grabbing: conversion of agricultural land for urban expansion and hydropower development - Pham Huu Ty, Nguyen Quang Phuc and Guus van Westen 9. 'Land grabbing' in Cambodia: land rights in a post-conflict setting - Michelle McLinden Nuijen, Men Prachvuthy and Guus van Westen 10. Beyond the Gulf State investment hype: the case of Indonesia and the Philippines - Gerben Nooteboom and Laurens Bakker 11. Tracing the dragon's footsteps: a deconstruction of the discourse on China's foreign land investments - Peter Ho and Irna Hofman Conclusion: beyond the global land grab hype - ways forward in research and action - Annelies Zoomers and Mayke Kaag