Sökning: "land-grab"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade ordet land-grab.
1. Dispossessed: Exploring the Factors That Enable Post-Disaster Land Grabs
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetSammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to better understand what factors produce an enabling environment for land grabs after a disaster. Looking at eight selected case studies, this research tests the role of land tenure security, private capital investment and global financial institutions, and gender. LÄS MER
2. Foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Boon or bane for domestic food security?
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenSammanfattning : Since the boom in global food prices in 2008, governments and companies around the world seek to boost agricultural output and sustain internal food security through the purchase and lease of farmland in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is no consensus in the literature whether land acquisitions by foreign investors are beneficial to the livelihoods of the local people in Africa. LÄS MER
3. Unregulated Land Grab Through Legal Processes : A review of the different claims to land
L2-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Sammanfattning : The rise and deepening of economic globalization has highlighted a closer connection between international arrangements that governs global capital flow on the one hand, and acquisition of land and natural resources on the other. These shifts of political economy underpin how international investment law has created contrasting social dimensions of how land rights remain embedded in many societies. LÄS MER
4. Access to land in Ethiopia
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiSammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to examine rural populations' access to land in Ethiopia, in the light of land regulations and different obstacles. Using a qualitative research design, based on a literature study, the following topics will be discussed; land regulation, state-led industrial development, villagization program and land-grab. LÄS MER
5. The Global Land Grab, Primitive Accumulation and Accumulation by Dispossession Revisited: from conceptual tensions and debates to contradictions and crisis tendencies
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiSammanfattning : In an attempt to understand and explain the global land grab in terms of the dynamics and contemporary transformations of capitalism, critical scholars have made extensive use of the concepts of primitive accumulation and accumulation by dispossession. Although they provide powerful insights into the phenomenon, their use is also fraught with challenges. LÄS MER
