The Relation Between Large Scale Land Acquisitions And Rural Households

Author : Giulia Barbanente
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783658299644

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The Relation between Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Rural Households by Giulia Barbanente Pdf

Giulia Barbanente investigates the impact of large-scale foreign land acquisitions (LSLAs) on rural households in Ethiopia and Tanzania. Given the scale of LSLAs happening in developing countries, there is urgent need to objectively assess whether risks for smallholders are balanced by positive economic outcomes. The author considers four key pathways of influence of LSLAs on rural households: access to land, returns to land, returns to labor and price of agricultural goods. The four pathways are tested on the background of Ethiopia’s and Tanzania’s land tenure systems, which are strikingly different. The evidence shows several elements of similarity in the reported effect of LSLAs on the defined indicators of households’ welfare in the two countries.

Author : Christophe Gironde,Christophe Golay,Peter Messerli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004304758

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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions by Christophe Gironde,Christophe Golay,Peter Messerli Pdf

Large-scale land acquisitions, or ‘land grabbing’, has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term ‘land acquisitions’ refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put ‘land grabbing’ into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs' negative consequences. Contributors include: Maria Lisa Alano, Ioana Cismas, Olivier De Schutter, Michael Dwyer, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Andreas Heinimann, Martin Keulertz, Marcel Mazoyer, Peter Messerli, Hafiz Mirza, Vong Nanhthavong, Gerben Nooteboom, Patricia Paramita, Amaury Peeters, Emily Polack, Laurence Roudart, Oliver Schoenweger, Gilda Senties, Sokbunthoeun So, Mohamad Shohibuddin, William Speller, Eckart Woertz, and James Zhan.

Author : Osabuohien, Evans
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466674066

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Handbook of Research on In-Country Determinants and Implications of Foreign Land Acquisitions by Osabuohien, Evans Pdf

Several studies have investigated the impetus and implications behind large-scale land acquisitions/deals at the global level; however, intranational factors within communities and societies have not received much attention from researchers. The Handbook of Research on In-Country Determinants and Implications of Foreign Land Acquisitions examines the economic, sociological, and environmental issues surrounding land transactions and the impact these deals may have on local households and communities. Focusing on international issues as well as domestic concerns, this publication is a useful reference for policymakers, academics, researchers, and advanced-level students in various disciplines.

Author : Laura German
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066594698

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Contemporary Processes of Large-scale Land Acquisition by Investors by Laura German Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004252646

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Africa for Sale? by Anonim Pdf

The past several decades have witnessed a rise in foreign and domestic investments in Africa’s arable land. While such land projects are currently the focus of widespread media and scholarly interest, the role of the state in driving, negotiating and facilitating these acquisitions deserves closer attention. This book analyzes how state land policies, stakeholder interactions and privatization schemes interact to facilitate large-scale land acquisitions. It includes a study of the various forms of state intervention, the influence of foreign agencies, governments and private entities, and a look at how states interact with local populations. The inclusion of case studies in settings throughout the African continent should attract the interest of both an academic and non-academic readership.

Author : Jean-Claude Thill,Suzana Dragicevic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319595115

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GeoComputational Analysis and Modeling of Regional Systems by Jean-Claude Thill,Suzana Dragicevic Pdf

The contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in GeoComputational Analysis of Regional Systems. The contributions emphasize methodological innovations or substantive breakthroughs on many facets of the socio-economic and environmental reality of regional contexts.

Author : Dessalegn Rahmato
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789994450404

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Land to Investors by Dessalegn Rahmato Pdf

Under its program of land investments, the Ethiopian government has leased out huge tracts of land to domestic and foreign investors on terms that are highly favorable to both but particularly to foreign ones. Critical reports on the ibonanzai reaped by foreign capital have appeared in the world media and the websites of international activist organizations, and while some of these are based on questionable evidence, the global attention they have drawn may well be deserved given the image of the country as a land of poverty and hunger. This study, which is based on information gathered from field interviews as well as other sources, looks at the subject from a land rights perspective, with emphasis on the relations of power between small land-users and their communities on the one hand and the state on the other. At bottom what is at stake is the land and the resources on it, and what is being grabbed are rights that in most cases belong to peasant farmers, pastoralists and their communities. In the long run, the shift of agrarian system from small-scale to large-scale, foreign dominated production -which is what the investment program is now doing- will marginalize small producers, and cause immense damage to local ecosystems, wildlife habitats and biodiversity.

Author : John F McCarthy
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814762113

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Land and Development in Indonesia by John F McCarthy Pdf

Indonesia was founded on the ideal of the "e;Sovereignty of the People"e;, which suggests the pre-eminence of people's rights to access, use and control land to support their livelihoods. Yet, many questions remain unresolved. How can the state ensure access to land for agriculture and housing while also supporting land acquisition for investment in industry and infrastructure? What is to be done about indigenous rights? Do registration and titling provide solutions? Is the land reform agenda "e;legislated but never implemented"e; still relevant? How should the land questions affecting Indonesia's disappearing forests be resolved? The contributors to this volume assess progress on these issues through case studies from across the archipelago: from large-scale land acquisitions in Papua, to asset ownership in the villages of Sulawesi and Java, to tenure conflicts associated with the oil palm and mining booms in Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Sumatra. What are the prospects for the "e;people's sovereignty"e; in regard to land?

Author : Klaus Deininger,Derek Byerlee,Jonathan Lindsay
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : MINN:31951D03217828U

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Rising Global Interest in Farmland by Klaus Deininger,Derek Byerlee,Jonathan Lindsay Pdf

This book aims to provide key pieces of information needed for informed debate about large-scale land acquisition by drawing on the experience from past land expansions, discussing predictions for potential future demand, and providing empirical evidence of what is happening on the ground in the countries most affected by the recent increase in demand for land. It complements demand side considerations with a detailed assessment of the amount of land, whether currently cultivated or not, that might potentially be available for agricultural cultivation at the global and country levels. It then describes in some detail the policies in place to manage land acquisition processes and analyzes how these policies may affect outcomes. This information can help governments in land abundant countries to assess how best to integrate increased demand for land into their rural development strategies and provide opportunities and benefits to all involved, including existing smallholders. This is particularly important as many of these countries also have high yield gaps. It also highlights how, in cases where land acquisition by large investors makes sense from a social, economic, and environmental perspective, governments can create an environment that can help to attract outside investment that contributes to broad-based growth and poverty reduction.

Author : Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher : IIED
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Eminent domain
ISBN : 9781843697411

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Land Grab Or Development Opportunity? by Lorenzo Cotula Pdf

Author : Kristina Lanz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000581140

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Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Ghana by Kristina Lanz Pdf

This book examines a large-scale land acquisition project for rice production in Ghana’s Volta Region, which has been purported by some to be a social and ecological showcase of a company entering a "community–private partnership" with affected communities. Celebrated by national and international media, the project has received substantial amounts of funding from various donor organisations and claims to empower women through its much-lauded outgrower project. Although discourses of "development", "sustainability" and "women’s empowerment" are used by the investment company, the state and the customary authorities to legitimise the large-scale land acquisition, this book highlights how the deal benefits mainly the powerful elite, including elite women, and generally increases the depreciation of those already most marginalised, such as poor female-headed households and settler communities that were dependent on resources from the commons now enclosed and transformed into a rice farm. The author adopts a New Institutionalist perspective in social anthropology in order to analyse how this land acquisition has been implemented in a plural institutional context and how different actors use different rules and regulations and associated legitimating discourses to increase their bargaining power and to pursue their own interests in a changing legal context. In addition, this perspective shows how benefits and losses are distributed along different intersecting axes of power, such as class, gender, clan membership and age. By focusing on power, gender and legitimisation strategies in the context of institutional change caused by the large-scale land acquisition, this book fills a gap in the literature on large-scale land acquisitions while contributing to the development of a theoretical perspective on institutional change, power relations and ideological legitimisation. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of land and resource grabbing, agricultural development and agribusiness, land management and development studies more broadly.

Author : Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Dzodzi Tsikata
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847011305

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Africa's Land Rush by Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Dzodzi Tsikata Pdf

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.

Author : Ben White,Saturnino Borras Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Wendy Wolford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317976851

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The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals by Ben White,Saturnino Borras Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Wendy Wolford Pdf

This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns of rural social differentiation – in terms of class, gender, ethnicity and generation – are being shaped by changes in land use and property relations, as well as by the re-organization of production and exchange as rural communities and resources are incorporated into global commodity chains. It goes further than the descriptive ‘what’ and ‘who’ questions, in order to understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of these patterns. It is empirically solid and theoretically sophisticated, making it a robust and boundary-changing work. Contributors come from various scholarly disciplines. Covering nearly all regions of the world, the collection will be of interest to researchers from various disciplines, policymakers and activists. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Antony Chapoto,Athur Mabiso,Adwinmea Bonsu
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Agricultural Commercialization, Land Expansion, and Homegrown Large-Scale Farmers by Antony Chapoto,Athur Mabiso,Adwinmea Bonsu Pdf

The past decade has seen several African countries increasing their agricultural growth, a trend largely underpinned by increases in land area cultivated instead of productivity increases. Meanwhile, scholars debate whether Africa should pursue a strategy of large-scale or smallholder farms, paying little attention to a special group of smallholder farmers who have transitioned to become medium- and large-scale farmers. This study, therefore, begins to analyze this group of farmers, using qualitative data from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions in Ghana. We analyze their characteristics, ingredients of farm-size expansion, and commercialization. Numerous insights are gained and hypotheses formulated for future research. One important insight is that with the right attitude, exposure, and discipline, it is possible for smallholder farmers to increase their farm size and commercialize regardless of initial farm enterprise choice. However, to transition, initial farm size and farming system appear critical, with farmers in areas of low population density and flat topography more likely to acquire larger farming land. The transition, however, occurs gradually over 20 to 30 years, with mean annual land acquisition rates ranging from 0.3 to 24.3 acres per year. In the transition process, large- and medium-scale farmers are found to increase their use of modern farm inputs (such as fertilizer and high-yielding seed varieties) and agricultural technologies (such as tractors and processing machinery) and appear more productive than smallholder farmers. Additional quantitative analyses using representative survey data are, however, needed to substantiate the observed qualitative patterns and to further understand the trajectories of farm size expansion and the implications for agricultural productivity and commercialization.

Author : Shogo Kudo,Orleans Mfune,Melissa Hansen,Jackline Nyerere
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781942876298

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Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainable Development in Africa by Shogo Kudo,Orleans Mfune,Melissa Hansen,Jackline Nyerere Pdf

This book highlights the important role of the complex nature of interactions between rural and urban areas in Africa and how this relates to sustainable development on the continent – one with a fast urbanization rate. The volume critiques the widely held assumption of a societal divide where rural areas are mostly agricultural, whilst urban areas engage in industry and services. Contributors provide conceptual arguments and present case studies in Africa which illustrate the complex and multifaceted interdependencies between cities and rural areas, through the flow of natural resources, people, capital, information, goods and services which directly impacts the socio-ecological as well as economic sustainability of these spaces. This volume forms part of an Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) book series involving the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and 8 partner African universities running Master’s Programs in sustainable development. The book series is intended to serve primarily as undergraduate and graduate instruction materials for courses on sustainable development in Africa, as well as policy input to key developmental issues in Africa.