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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Land grabs"”.
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Land Grabs and Implications on Food Sovereignty and Social Justice in Senegal
… to examine the implications of large- scale land acquisitions on the livelihoods of small-scale farmers. I investigate the diverse perspectives of market enthusiasts, human rights organizations, peasants, the state, and international financial organizations on large-scale land acquisitions. …
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Land wars : the political economy of Nigeria's displacement crisis
… their homes by armed conflict, disaster, and land grabs. The traumatic impact of forced displacement is well documented. Yet the initial displacing event is typically only the beginning. Once displaced persons are forced out, they encounter a maze of institutional arrangements that will …
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Red lines and faits accomplis in interstate coercion and crisis
… Crisis -- and an analysis of gray areas and land grabs in territorial crises since 1918. Making extensive use of declassified documents, the case studies show that the "game" of crises need not be a matter of convincing the adversary of one's willingness to fight. Instead, states pursue …
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Host Country Institutions and the Politics of Transnational Land Acquisitions: A Case Study of Egypt
This thesis examines farmland investments in the Nile region with a special focus on Egypt. It analyses how the contextual conditions of land governance influences the patterns of land investment activities in host countries. The literature recognizes that the institutional environment of land …
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The role of Hout Bay craft markets in sustaining the livelihoods of Zimbabwean traders
… economic dynamics generated from its Fast Track Land Reform Programme (Raftopoulos, 2009). The country plunged into land grabs (dubbed Third Chimurenga) led by the war veterans, motivated by economic freedom and emancipation for the black majority. Thus began the economic decline and the exodus …
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"We are Refugees in Our Own Homeland": Land Dispossession and Resettlement Challenges in Post-Conflict Teso, Uganda
… Uganda from 2012-2013. It focuses primarily on land dispossession and challenges to resettlement. Conflicts over land intensified in the early 1990s, coinciding with the early stages of resettlement in southern Teso after a period of regional civil war and large-scale cattle rustling. In …
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The Nitrate That Shaped the World: A Global History of Indian Saltpetre (1700-1850)
… saltpetre supply and its management enabled England and Europe to produce a huge quantity of gunpowder for trade and war. The gunpowder produced from Indian saltpetre influenced the scale of the African slave trade and helped in the development of the British slave trade centers such as …
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From Dispossession to Surplus Production: A Theory of Capitalist Accumulation in Neoliberal Bangladesh
… and control dispossession while grabbing land and expelling peasants from their places. Next, it investigates how dispossession contributes to providing 'potential capitals,' such as grabbed land and dispossessed peasants, to the production sites to be converted into 'constant capital' and …