What Drives The Global Land Rush
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What Drives The Global Land Rush
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Author : Mr.Rabah Arezki
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 2011-11-01
What Drives The Global Land Rush written by Mr.Rabah Arezki and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as well as indicators of land rights security. Results confirm the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature on foreign investment in general, the quality of the business climate is insignificant whereas weak land governance and tenure security for current users make countries more attractive for investors. Implications for policy are discussed.
What Drives The Global Land Rush
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Author : Rabah Arezki
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
What Drives The Global Land Rush written by Rabah Arezki and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Forests and forestry categories.
The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a "global land rush". Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they carry risks of dispossession and loss of livelihoods, corruption, deterioration in local food security, environmental damage, and long-term social polarization that led some countries to recently pass legislation restricting foreign land acquisition. To stimulate evidence-based debate, this paper explores determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. It quantifies demand for land deals, showing it focused on Africa where land expansion is about 20 times the level it was in the past. The analysis uses data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in non-protected and forested areas with low population density as well as land rights security. It estimates gravity models that can help identify determinants of foreign land acquisition dedicated to large-scale agriculture. The results confirm the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature on foreign investment in general, the quality of the business climate is insignificant, whereas weak land governance and tenure security for current users make countries more attractive for investors. Implications for policy are discussed.
Our Land Our Lives Time Out In The Global Land Rush
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Author : Kate Geary
language : en
Publisher: Oxfam
Release Date : 2012
Our Land Our Lives Time Out In The Global Land Rush written by Kate Geary and has been published by Oxfam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Land tenure categories.
The Transnational Land Rush In Africa
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Author : Logan Cochrane
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-01
The Transnational Land Rush In Africa written by Logan Cochrane and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-01 with Political Science categories.
This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African ‘land rush’, providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted. The research will be a critical resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers as it provides detailed, long-term assessments of a broad range of national contexts. In addition to the specific questions of land and investment, this book sheds light on the broader international political economy of development in different African countries.
The Global Land Rush
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Author : Rachel Nalepa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-07-11
The Global Land Rush written by Rachel Nalepa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-11 with categories.
Governing Global Land Deals
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Author : Wendy Wolford
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-09-30
Governing Global Land Deals written by Wendy Wolford and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with Political Science categories.
This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance. Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governance Offers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of global land acquisitions Illuminates both the micro-processes of transaction and expropriation, as well as the broader structural forces at play in global land deals Provides new empirical data on the different actors involved in contemporary land deals occurring across the globe and focuses on the specific institutional, political, and economic contexts in which they are acting
Fields Of Gold
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Author : Madeleine Fairbairn
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-15
Fields Of Gold written by Madeleine Fairbairn and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Science categories.
Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice. At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships—from Iowa to Manhattan to São Paulo—that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class. Thanks to generous funding from UC Santa Cruz, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Industrial Tree Plantations And The Land Rush In China
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Author : Yunan Xu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-12
Industrial Tree Plantations And The Land Rush In China written by Yunan Xu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-12 with Business & Economics categories.
This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China. In the past two decades, the industrial tree plantation sector has been expanding rapidly in China, especially in Guangxi Province. Based on extensive primary data, this book concentrates on the political economy of the sector’s expansion with a focus on the recent and dramatic agrarian transformation involving the land-labour nexus, the impact on villagers’ livelihoods, the role of the state, and political reactions from below. The book questions the stereotypical portrayal of local communities as the excluded villager. Instead, it demonstrates that this is a much more complex issue with varying levels of passive and active forms of inclusion and exclusion within local communities. While most literature focuses on crop booms for food and biofuel production the industrial plantation sector has largely been overlooked, despite it being one of the biggest sectors in the current rush for land. Filling this lacuna, this book also reveals that while China has traditionally been painted as a major land grabber and consumer of crop booms it is also a destination of foreign investment. In doing so the book highlights how large-scale foreign land deals can also take place in traditional ‘grabber’ countries like China which feeds into the wider debates about global land politics and resource grabbing. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of land grabbing, rural development and agrarian transformations, as well as Chinese development.
The Transnational Land Rush In Africa
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Author : Logan Cochrane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Transnational Land Rush In Africa written by Logan Cochrane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
"This is an exemplary political economy analysis of what has happened across Africa since the contemporary global land grabbing occurred more than a decade ago. While the topic and questions addressed may sound familiar to many readers who have been tracking the issue over the last decade, this volume provides a much needed up to date information, critical insights and nuanced analysis, which place it among the best in Africa's land rush scholarship and beyond." - Tsegaye Moreda, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam "While the stories have faded from the headlines in the decade or so since the trend first emerged, discussions about the implications of large-scale land investments have persisted among academics and development practitioners. This volume manages to both highlight emerging trends and provide an analysis that is rich in contextual detail, while making. an important and timely contribution to discourses on the nexus between law, power and economic development in Africa." -David Deng, Human Rights Lawyer and Researcher, Detcro LLC This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African 'land rush', providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted. The research will be a critical resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers as it provides detailed, long-term assessments of a broad range of national contexts. In addition to the specific questions of land and investment, this book sheds light on the broader international political economy of development in different African countries. Logan Cochrane is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University, Canada. Nathan Andrews is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.
Africa S Land Rush
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Author : Ruth Hall
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2015
Africa S Land Rush written by Ruth Hall and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Business & Economics categories.
Interrogates the narratives of land grabbing and agricultural investment through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy.