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This volume draws on international investment and human rights law, on the national law of selected jurisdictions and on the contracts concluded for a large investment project to consider the legal frameworks regulating the growing investment flows to Africa.

In the world's developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power - from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of foreign investment. The growing integration of the world economy has been accompanied by rapid and extensive developments in the national and international norms that regulate investment and its impact - including investment law, natural resource law and human rights law. These legal developments...

In recent years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines across the world. Dubbed 'land grabs' in the media, large-scale land acquisitions have become one of the most talked about and contentious topics amongst those studying, working in or writing about Africa. Some commentators have welcomed this corporate and government action in response to security and food shortage fears, others have countered by pointing to its negative impacts.Lorenzo Cotula, one of the leading experts in the field, casts a critical eye over the most reliable available...

In recent years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines across the world. Dubbed 'land grabs' in the media, large-scale land acquisitions have become one of the most talked about and contentious topics amongst those studying, working in or writing about Africa. Some commentators have welcomed this corporate and government action in response to security and food shortage fears, others have countered by pointing to its negative impacts.Lorenzo Cotula, one of the leading experts in the field, casts a critical eye over the most reliable available...