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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"land grab"”.
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South Sudan & the “Global Land Grab”: Implications for the Future of Food Security
… South Sudan occupies some of the most fertile land with access to several major water sources -- all the ingredients for a thriving agriculture sector -- and yet, it is a net food importer. Worse, 60 percent of the population does not consume enough food to provide a nutritious diet. Why does a …
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Engendering The Land Grab: Development, Involuntary Resettlement, And The Struggles For Social Reproduction In Coastal Tanzania
… of the gendered processes and outcomes of land grabbing. It focuses on a case of a contemporary land deal for sugarcane production in the Coast Region of Tanzania and the resultant process of involuntary resettlement. It critically examines the technical ways in which involuntary …
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Race, Nature, and Accumulation: A Decolonial World-Ecological Analysis of Indian Land Grabbing in the Gambella Province of Ethiopia
… phenomenon of large-scale agricultural land acquisition, otherwise known as the global land grab, within the longue duree of the capitalist world-ecology. It does so by advancing a theoretical and historical framework, which I call the decolonial world-ecological agrarian question, that …
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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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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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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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Thunderbird: Embracing Indigenous Voices of Resistance
… government legislation, as well as aggressive land grab behaviours of settler colonialism. “Land is a fundamental asset for sustainable economic development for First Nations, and land rights are critical for self-determination” (Assembly of First Nations). Regaining dignity and reaffirming …