The global land grab : beyond the hype / / edited by Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, [England] ; ; New York : , : Zed Books, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.44091724 |
Soggetto topico | Land use - Developing countries |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-78032-897-4
1-78032-896-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464876503321 |
London, [England] ; ; New York : , : Zed Books, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The global land grab : beyond the hype / / edited by Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.73/13091724 |
Soggetto topico |
Land use - Developing countries
Eminent domain - Developing countries Development studies Land rights Human geography Agriculture & farming |
ISBN |
1-350-22317-4
1-78032-897-4 1-78032-896-6 |
Classificazione |
cci1icc
coll13 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 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 / |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789116303321 |
London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
The global land grab : beyond the hype / / edited by Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.73/13091724 |
Soggetto topico |
Land use - Developing countries
Eminent domain - Developing countries Development studies Land rights Human geography Agriculture & farming |
ISBN |
1-350-22317-4
1-78032-897-4 1-78032-896-6 |
Classificazione |
cci1icc
coll13 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 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 / |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827861703321 |
London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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