Sökning: "global land rush"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden global land rush.

  1. 1. Land grabbing in Ghana - A false promise? : Neo-colonialism or a development opportunity?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studier

    Författare :Olivia Albers; Suhuur Anwar Muhammed; [2023]
    Nyckelord :: Land grabbing; Neo-colonialism; Development opportunity; Ghana; Brong-Ahafo; Ashanti; Volta; Customary land tenure system; Nkrumah;

    Sammanfattning : A global land rush developed during the last decade, spared primiarly by the sharp rise inglobal food prices between 2007 and 2008. The inceased international food prices resulted inincreased interest from foreign actors to invest in agricultural land in developing countries inthe global south. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Exploring land grabbing in Ethiopia - narratives & livelihood implications.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

    Författare :Aylin Nguyen; Linnea Widholm Ivarsson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Smallholders; Agriculture development; Agriculture commercialization; local livelihoods; Growth and Transformation Plan; land relations;

    Sammanfattning : The land grabbing phenomena grew in both reported cases and in scholarly interest after the 2008 financial crisis. The concept of land grabbing has been greatly debated and some have chosen the term large scale land acquisition instead, focusing on win-win outcomes while the land grabbing term rather focuses on the unequal power relations involved. LÄS MER

  4. 3. ‘It is they, the elders, that have thrown away the land’ : a case study on power hierarchies in the community of Babator, Northern Ghana

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Johanna Caminati Engström; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Ghana; customary land; global land rush; large-scale land acquisition; customary hierarchies; power; resource access; conflict and cooperation; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : In a global context of proliferating land-based investments, growing demographic pressure, and increasing urbanization, this thesis investigates a case of large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) in Babator, Norther Ghana. The objective is to provide a better understanding of how local power structures within affected communities influence the outcome of LSLAs. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Landscapes of change and resistance : a case study of the mineral industry’s establishment in south-east Skåne

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Författare :Tove Berg; [2020]
    Nyckelord :struggles over the landscape; the production of landscape; mining conflict; environmental politics; green transition; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This paper studies the struggles over the landscape that emerge in south-east Skåne due to the exploration permission which was given to ScandiVanadium in 2018. It also examines how this permission has a background in trends of a green transition in the mineral industry. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Landförvärv i utvecklingsländer - En fråga kring ömsesidig vinning, säkerhet eller exploatering

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Emilie Karlsson; [2010]
    Nyckelord :utvecklingsländer; idealtyper; neorealism; neoliberalism; landförvärv; neomarxism; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Since 2008, a picture is emerging of a global rush of the world’s farmland, referred to as land acquisition. Several factors underpin these land acquisitions such as the financial crisis and the food prices hikes of 2007/8. Another key driver behind the deals is the biofuel boom that has been a major cosmopolitical topic the last few years. LÄS MER