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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"land grabbing"”.
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Harnessing Environmental Justice to Protect Against Land-grabbing in Cameroon
… in August 2016. The thesis examined the issue of land-grabbing through an environmental justice lens. The thesis first reviewed the concept of environmental justice and the threats that land-grabbing by powerful transnational corporations pose to subsistence communities in Africa. Additionally, …
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LA SOVRANITA' PERMANENTE DEGLI STATI SULLE RISORSE NATURALI ED IL FENOMENO DEL LAND GRABBING
… una nuova pratica, definita sinteticamente "land grabbing" (letteralmente accaparramento delle terre). Con tale espressione si indica, in prima approssimazione, l'acquisizione o l'affitto in larga scala di terre destinate ad uso agricolo, da parte di investitori stranieri pubblici e privati. …
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Land and land grabbing: the case study of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe in Uganda
… and food politics in relation to the trend of “land-grabbing” by foreign investors in sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis focuses on the conceptual and discursive “ecology” surrounding food and land security in the post-colonial, globalized world. The image of post-colonial Africa has been made to …
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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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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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Munda Politics and Land: Understanding Indigeneity in Jharkhand, India
… neoliberal development projects like land-grabbing and mining. I analyze, based on a fifteen month long ethnographic study conducted from May 2017 to December 2018, the meaning of land for the Munda community, and how these meanings underlie the Adivasi-State conflict, based on several …
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Large-scale land acquisitions and minorities/indigenous peoples' rights under ethnic federalism in Ethiopia. A Case Study of Gambella Regional State
… phenomenon of the global rush for farmland has generated intense debate from different actors. While the proponents embrace it as a "development opportunity", the critics dub it "land grabbing". Others use a neutral term: "arge-scale land acquisitions". Whatever terminology is used, one …
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Large-scale land acquisitions and minorities/indigenous peoples' rights under ethnic federalism in Ethiopia. A Case Study of Gambella Regional State
… phenomenon of the global rush for farmland has generated intense debate from different actors. While the proponents embrace it as a "development opportunity", the critics dub it "land grabbing". Others use a neutral term: "arge-scale land acquisitions". Whatever terminology is used, one …
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An analysis of the socio-economic security challenges of urbanisation on the livelihood of the residents of Havana and Greenwell Matongo informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia
… and socio-economic security challenges such as land pollution, environmental protection, equal income distribution and control of population growth. It is crucial to note that these security challenges can be addressed by formulating socio-economic policy strategies that will address the income …
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Agro-pastoral Landuse Transformation: Implications and Perspectives in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
… the human-environmental problem of agro-pastoral landuse transformation in Northwest Cameroon, identifying population pressure, climate change, environmental degradation, land grabbing, change in traditional land tenure systems and poor landuse policies as major drivers of agrarian landuse …
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Land Matters : Agrofuels, Unequal Exchange, and Appropriation of Ecological Space
As a global society we are entering an era where land areas and land-based resources are coming to the fore once again for capital accumulation and economic growth, for the first time since the end of the 18th century when Malthus forecasted a contradiction between population growth and …
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Between Uncertainty and Hope: Disaster, Displacement, and Livelihoods on Onishchit Char in Bangladesh
… study, the sites include a temporary river island (char), an embankment populated with islanders in Gaibandha district, and a shantytown and two rickshaw garages in Dhaka. An important aspect of this study has been to examine how disaster-induced vulnerabilities are linked with social …
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From Dispossession to Surplus Production: A Theory of Capitalist Accumulation in Neoliberal Bangladesh
… to organize 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 …
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New media and civil society : a study of Native Customary Rights (NCR) Land and Community-based Organisations (CBOs) in Sarawak, Malaysia
… using the study of native customary rights (NCR) land community-based organisations (CBOs) in Sarawak, Malaysia. Sarawak, the largest state of the Bornean Island, formed the Federation of Malaysia with Sabah in 1963 bound by an agreement that secured their oil royalty and native status as …
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Money for something? Investigating the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation interventions in the Northern Plains of Cambodia
… during 2005-2012 in the Northern Plains landscape of Cambodia. The interventions included the establishment of Protected Areas (PAs), village-level land-use planning, and three different types of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) instituted within the PAs. The PES programmes were …
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Socio-economic impact assessment of De Beers Namaqualand Mines closure in 2002
… of its contents follows : De Beers Namaqualand Mines (DBNM) commissioned the EEU to undertake a study, seeped to assessment ofthe socio-economic effects of mine closure and recommendations for mitigation. The effects or impacts; vary in their magnitude and significance further more they …
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Impacto socioeconómico de la regulación de biocombustibles. Impulso hacia la prosperidad sostenible
… y los procesos de acaparamiento de tierras (land grabbing) en países del Sur global. Otro de los aportes relevantes de la tesis es el examen del riesgo de fraude y “carbonwashing”, entendido como la manipulación de los sistemas de certificación para simular sostenibilidad ambiental. Se …