The global land grab : beyond the hype / / edited by Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers

• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York : , : Zed Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.44091724
• Soggetto topico: Land use - Developing countries
• Soggetto geografico: Developing countries Social conditions Case studies
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KaagMaria Margaretha Antonia; ZoomersE. B.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; About the editors; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures, tables and boxes; Introduction: the global land grab hype - and why it is important to move beyond; Introduction: a twofold hype; The current global land rush: what do we know?; Understanding the current global land rush as a hype cycle3; Manifestations on the ground: the case studies presented in this book; Africa; 1 Modernizing the periphery: citizenship and Ethiopia's new agricultural investment policies; Introduction; Background; Table 1.1 Area of farmland acquired by private investors by region, 1992-2010 ; 1.1 Food price index and proportion of investments, projects in Ethiopia, 1992-2010Methodology; Table 1.2 Overview of the investment planning process; Overview of case studies; 1.2 Topographical map of Ethiopia; Table 1.3 Overview of case study investments; Findings; Discussion and conclusion; 2 Large-scale land acquisitions in Tanzania: a critical analysis of practices and dynamics; Introduction; Background to Tanzanian agriculture development and foreign investment; Land laws and land acquisition processes; Developments in the land policy and land acquisition processes ; Do large-scale land acquisitions exist?2.1 The number of new companies investing in agriculture, registered by the TIC annually, 2001-12; Concluding remarks; 3 Kenya and the 'global land grab': a view from below; Introduction; The origins of the system of land grabbing; The Kenyan experience of land grabbing; From resistance to reform; The 'global land grab' viewed from Kenya; Table 3.1 Summary table of some recent large-scale land investments in Kenya; Conclusions; Latin America; 4 The rapid expansion of genetically modified soy production into the Chaco region of Argentina; Introduction ; The expansion of the soy frontier: how did it happen?4.1 South American Chaco region; 4.2 Argentina: current soy-producing provinces; Assessing the impact; Conclusions; 5 Transnational land investment in Costa Rica: tracing residential tourism and its implications for development; Introduction; Guanacaste's historical 'land grabs' and connections to North America; The current hype: residential tourism development in Guanacaste; 5.1 Planned/announced and completed residential tourism entities (plots, houses and apartments) per type of town, research area; Externally led economic development ; Access to landPolicy and community involvement; Conclusion; 6 Water grabbing in the Andean region: illustrative cases from Peru and Ecuador; Introduction; Accumulation of water in the hands of the few; Case analysis of Peru; Table 6.1 Farm units, irrigated areas and number of irrigators in Peru; Table 6.2 Largest buyers of lots in the Chavimochic Project, 1994-2006 period; Table 6.3 Buyers of lots in the Olmos Project in auctions on 9 December 2011 and 12 April 2012; Case analysis of Ecuador; Table 6.4 Consumptive use of water according to rights ; Table 6.5 Percentages of total and irrigated farmland in Ecuador, 2000
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 intervention.
• Titolo autorizzato: The global land grab
• ISBN: 1-78032-897-4; 1-78032-896-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464876503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II