The Global Land Grab
Beyond the Hype
The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of “land grabbing” – the large-scale acquisition of land in the Global South.
About the book
The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of “land grabbing” – the large-scale acquisition of land in the Global South. It is a phenomenon against which locals seem defenceless, and one about which multilateral organizations such as the World Bank as well as civil-society organizations and action NGOs have become increasingly vocal.
This in-depth and empirically diverse volume – taking in case studies from across Africa, Asia and Latin America – 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?
The Global Land Grab is a comprehensive and much-needed intervention on one of the most hotly contested but little-understood issues facing Global South countries today.
What people are saying
Saturnino M. Borras Jr, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The HagueThe Global Land Grab represents an important break from the earlier wave of land grabs studies in at least three interlinked ways: in its look beyond the ‘here and now’ by historicizing analysis; in its grounded local-national studies; and in its comparative perspective across regions of the world. Researchers, activists and development policy practitioners … should read this book.
Christian Lund, University of CopenhagenThis collection provides a serious analytical contribution to our understanding of a phenomenon, which might seem to peak at the present, but which is deeply rooted in the past and will need steadfast scholarly and political attention in the future.
Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on the right to foodA uniquely well-informed and comprehensive analysis of land grabbing, describing developments across three continents and illustrating the variety of forms it has taken. It shall be of interest to anyone curious about the future of globalization and its impacts on the poor who rely on access to land for their livelihood.
Robin Palmer, global land rights policy specialist, MokoroThis is an excellent, original collection, on the global land-grabbing phenomenon. It covers a number of interesting themes, including urban land grabbing, GM soy cultivation, residential tourism, water grabbing, new land conversions in Vietnam, and the Gulf States’ investments.
Authors
Contents
- Introduction: The Global Land Grab Hype Mayke Kaag & Annelies Zoomers
- Part One: Africa
- Modernising the Periphery: Citizenship and Ethiopia’s New Agricultural Investment Policies George Schoneveld & Maru Shete
- Large Scale Land Acquisitions in Tanzania: A Critical Analysis of Practices and Dynamics Jumanne Abdallah, Linda Engstrüm, Kjell Havnevik & Lennart Salomonsson
- Kenya and the Global Land Grab: A View from Below Jacqueline M. Klopp & Odenda Lumumba
- Part Two: Latin America
- The Rapid Expansion of Genetically Modified Soy Production into the Chaco Region of Argentina Lucia Goldfarb & Annelies Zoomers
- Land Investment in Costa Rica: Tracing Residential Tourism and Its Implications for Development Femke van Noorloos
- Grabbing in the Andean Region: Illustrative Cases from Peru and Ecuador Rutgerd Boelens, Antonio Gaybor & Jan Hendriks
- Part Three: Asia
- Land Governance and Oil Palm Development: Examples from Riau Province, Indonesia Ari Susanti & Suseno Budidarsono
- Vietnam in the Debate on Land Grabbing: Conversion of Agricultural Land for Urban Expansion and Hydropower Development Ty Pham huu, Nguyen Quang Phuc & Guus van Westen
- Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Land Rights in a Post-conflict Setting Michelle McLinden Nuijen, Men Prachvuthy & Guus van Westen
- Beyond the Gulf State Investment Hype: The Case of Indonesia and the Philippines Gerben Nooteboom & Laurens Bakker
- Tracing the Dragon’s Footsteps: A Deconstruction of the Discourse on China’s Foreign Land Investments Peter Hoand & Irna Hofman
- Conclusion: Beyond the Global Land Grab Hype: Ways Forward in Research and Action Annelies Zoomers & Mayke Kaag
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