The Global Land Grab : Beyond the Hype

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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, 1992–2010
Methodology
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 land
Policy 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
Table 6.6 Formalized concentration of well water
Discussion and conclusions
Asia
7 Land governance and oil palm development: examples from Riau Province, Indonesia
Introduction
Oil palm expansion in Indonesia
Box 7.1 The economics of Riau Province
Land governance and natural resources management
Table 7.1 Land tenure forms as recognized by the Basic Agrarian Law No. 5/1960
7.1 Land administration and responsible land agencies
Table 7.2 Forestland licensing recognized by P.50/2010, which was amended by P.26/2012
Box 7.2 The roles of the forestry sector in Riau Province
Regional autonomy and forestry decentralization
Box 7.3 Decentralization in Riau Province
Competing claims for land and natural resources
Table 7.3 The Indonesian economic corridors and their main economic activities
Concluding remarks
8 Vietnam in the debate on land grabbing: conversion of agricultural land for urban expansion and hydropower development
Introduction
Agricultural land conversion in Vietnam: an overview
Table 8.1 Vietnam land deals in other countries and foreign deals in Vietnam
Table 8.2 Land use change between 2000 and 2009
Hydropower dam development
Table 8.3 The poverty rate of households living in resettlement sites
Discussion and conclusion
9 ‘Land grabbing’ in Cambodia: land rights in a post-conflict setting
Introduction
Setting the scene: Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) and local communities
Land governance and local communities: legal and institutional framework
Impact on local livelihoods
Table 9.1 Timeline of indigenous communities, marking key events and trends
Drivers: forces leading to large-scale acquisition and foreignization of land
The EU sugar regime reform and the EBA
Conclusion
10 Beyond the Gulf State investment hype: the case of Indonesia and the Philippines
Introduction
The GCC investment narrative
Why deals did not materialize
Table 10.1 Announced and realized foreign investments in food crops in the Philippines
Conclusions
11 Tracing the dragon’s footsteps: a deconstruction of the discourse on China’s foreign land investments
Introduction
Unpacking the discourse: China’s global emergence and its hallmarks in foreign affairs
Who are these Chinese? Disaggregating Chinese actors in overseas land acquisitions
China’s land acquisitions in time and place: what is new and what is true?
11.1 Chinese overseas land-based investments, 1949–99
11.2 Chinese overseas land-based investments, 2000–08
11.3 Chinese overseas land-based investments, 2009–11
The impetus for China’s foreign land investments: state guidance and private interests
Going beyond the hype: rethinking the Chinese ‘land grabs’ discourse
12 Conclusion: beyond the global land grab hype – ways forward in research and action
The ‘global land grab’ revisited
Ways forward in research and action
Box 12.1 The Voluntary Guidelines
Final reflections: why the land grab hype was good
Notes
About the contributors
Bibliography
Index
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