Sökning: "land grabbing"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 41 uppsatser innehållade orden land grabbing.

  1. 16. Identifying large-scale land acquisitions and their agro-ecological consequences : a remote sensing based study in Ghana

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Författare :Jenny Hansson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :remote sensing; land acquisition; physical geography and ecosystem analysis; Ghana; agro-ecology; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Today there are more than 45 million hectares (ha) of concluded large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in the low- and middle- income countries around the globe. Whether LSLA is referred to as land grabbing or land investment, LSLA means that the right to utilise land is moved from the local people to investors. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Can the Clean Development Mechanism bring Community Co-benefits? A case study of the Kachung Forest Project, Uganda

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

    Författare :Karin Edstedt; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Climate change mitigation; CDM; afforestation; local livelihood implications; climate justice; Uganda; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Global warming is one of the greatest challenges of our time. To globally reduce green house gas emissions, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was created under the Kyoto Protocol. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Development and underdevelopment: an examination of land grabbing in the DRC

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Alice Mutambala; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Foreign Investments; Land grabbing; Neocolonialism; Dependency; Capitalism; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : As foreign investments are conducted to a larger extent on the African continent and governments as well as corporations from the Western world are profiting from the countries’ resources, cases of exploitation of vulnerable groups are likewise being observed. These cases indicate how parties with great, economic power occasionally use their superior position when negotiating with, for example, rural communities that lack any means to oppose them. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Markrättigheter och mänskliga rättigheter

    L2-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Författare :Linete Roque Andersson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Mänskliga rättigheter; Human rights; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Using interview as a method this paper aims to obtain a deeper comprehesion of the life situation of the rural population in Xitanda and Itepela, in the northern part of Mocambique, where the Swedish company Chikweti were accused of land grabbing. With the approach of Grounded Theory and the constuction of a theory through the data analysis, the interviews plays a central role in the search for not only an understanding of the phenomenon of land grabbing in itself but most importantly the context where it occurs. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Biofuel Production : Examining the development of sub-Saharan Africa through the concepts of land grabbing, environmental justice and different views on development theories

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Miljövetenskap

    Författare :Oskar Fredrikson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Biofuel; environmental justice; land grabbing; sub-Saharan Africa;

    Sammanfattning : This paper examines and problematize the effects of biofuel production by focusing on local communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The premise lays in a critique of neoliberal thoughts of development and the concept of sustainable development. LÄS MER