Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance.
Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance.
PUBLISHER'S ABSTRACT: This report discusses the political, economic and social opportunities and constraints that will influence the design and implementation of REDD+ in Vietnam.
ABSTRACTED FROM THE PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: In recent years, various actors, from big foreign and domestic corporate business and finance to governments, have initiated a large-scale worldwide enclosure of agricultural lands, mostly in the Global South but also elsewhere.
In course of the research there were appraised the modern conditions of the land market in the conditions of the Republic of Belarus. The characteristic peculiarities of the land market were given. The experiences of execution of the land reforms were analyzed. The directions of state regulation of the land relationships were revealed.
Land has a cultural value in Nigeria in that its ownership cements
the relationship of the owner with the community. But more
importantly, land resource is critical to the livelihood of rural
farmers because they depend on it for income and food supply.
It is therefore important that it is sustainably managed and
In the conditions of the Republic of Belarus there was analyzed and systematized the experience of development of rent of agricultural lands in foreign countries. One of the most important directions of land ownership rights realization is land lease – one of the most economically sensible and efficient forms of land tenure.
Uganda has started its journey into urbanization and economic development. The pace of urbanization is picking up currently at 4.5 percent per year, and likely to accelerate with rising incomes.
Discusses two agricultural investments in Zambia. Both projects started as state-led, development-oriented initiatives in the 1970s and early 1980s, and were later privatised.
On the basis of the policy on strengthening of the land management, distribution and use stipulated in the Rectangular Strategy, the 2ndPhase of the RGC and also on the basis of the plenary session of the Council of Ministers dated 27 April 2012, especially seeing the need and urgency ahead in order to equity, strengthen and increase the effectiveness of ELCs Management the RGC issues the order
This paper critically examines theories of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion for analyzing the agrarian transformations that result from contemporary large-scale land acquisitions across the Global South.
Het beleid van de agrarische sector is gericht op het versterken van de marktpositie, concurrentiekracht, innovatievermogen en duurzaamheid. De vraag is in welke mate de realisatie van beleidsdoelen afhankelijk is van het tempo van schaalvergroting in de grondgeboden agrarische sectoren
Vooral sinds de scherpe stijging van de voedselprijzen in 2007/2008 is er een sterk toegenomen belangstelling van landen en bedrijven om grond in andere landen in gebruik te nemen voor de productie van landbouwgewassen, zowel voor voedselgewassen als voor biobrandstoffen. Het gaat om zeer grote oppervlaktes cultuurgrond, met soms vergaande consequenties voor de plaatselijke bevolking.