land grabbing
- Valuable resource on land grabbing
- This week, the agriculture editor highlights a website that contains valuable resources on the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad. Governments and foreign investors are using the land acquisition as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply to make a profit. These acquisitions have raised concerns about the transparency of such land deals and the impact it will have on poor local people.
- Food crisis and the global land grab
- News and commentary on land grabbing
- Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa
- ( L. Cotula;S. Vermeulan;R. Leonard / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
- Over 2008 large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia have increased. This report discusses key trends and drivers in land acquisitions, the contract...
- “Land grabbing” by foreign investors in developing countries. Risks and opportunities
- ( J. von Braun (ed);R. Meinzen-Dick (ed) / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- One of the effects of the food price crisis on the world food system is the increasing acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other countries seeking to ensure their food supplies....
- Rice land grabs undermine food sovereignty in Africa
- ( GRAIN , 2009)
- In the wake of the 2008 global food crisis, African capitals have been buzzing with renewed talk of the need for food self-sufficiency, and rice is often at the top of government agendas. Although eve...
- Land registration in Amhara Region, Ethiopia
- ( B. Adenew; F. Abdi / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2005)
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Assesses the process to establish a system of land registration and improve land tenure security, and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups in Amhara, Ethiopia .
The registration process is ...
- Cambodia: an assessment of forest conflict at community level
- ( US Agency for International Development , 2004)
- This report details an assessment of community-level forest conflicts in Cambodia, with the aim of understanding the types, causes and impacts of conflicts over forest resources at the community level...
