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Record Nr. |
UNINA9910789116303321 |
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Titolo |
The global land grab : beyond the hype / / edited by Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers |
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London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014 |
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[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-350-22317-4 |
1-78032-897-4 |
1-78032-896-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Land use - Developing countries |
Eminent domain - Developing countries |
Development studies |
Land rights |
Human geography |
Agriculture & farming |
Developing countries Social conditions Case studies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-255) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; Machine generated contents note: Africa -- ; 1. Modernizing the periphery: citizenship and Ethiopia's new agricultural investment policies / Maru Shete -- ; 2. Large-scale land acquisitions in Tanzania: a critical analysis of practices and dynamics / Lennart Salomonsson -- ; 3. Kenya and the `global land grab': a view from below / |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The last two years have seen a huge amount of interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South. This in-depth and empirically diverse volume takes a step back from the hype to explore a number of key questions: 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 |
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