Agricultural investment and international land deals: evidence from a multi-country study in Africa

Cotula, Lorenzo; Vermeulen, Sonja J.; Mathieu, Paul; Toulmin, Camilla

doi:10.1007/s12571-010-0096-x

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“…Table 1 (see below) provides an illustration of this trend drawing on recent data reported by the Land Matrix Project that is the best available source at present. ii The unique timing of the sh rise in land grabbing supports numerous theories that regard contemporary land grabbing as driven by the attractiveness of rising returns in the agricultural sector and in farmland values, growin international demand for biofuels, and strategies for securing agricultural supplies by nations and corporations (Cotula et al 2009;World Bank 2009;Borras et al 2010). Second, the scale of contemporary land grabs has been of a significant magnitude.…”

Section: 'Land Grabbing' As Contextmentioning

confidence: 70%

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Emergent Global Land Governance

Margulis¹

2014

Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era

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Land governance is currently the focus of many new global rule-making projects, marking a sharp break with past practices that sought to exclude land as an international governance issue. Wideranging concerns about land grabbing and its exclusionary and ecological consequences have driven this, prompting states and global civil society to devise new global land-governance instruments. This chapter offers a preliminary theoretical and empirical analysis of what is conceptualized as "emergent global land governance," focusing primarily on its international governance dimensions. A review of relevant land-governance policy instruments in the fields of investment, land tenure, and forestry suggests that emergent global land governance is likely to consist of multiple, overlapping instruments with diverging normative frameworks and objectives that are not closely coordinated instead of a singular, discrete international regime.

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Section: 'Land Grabbing' As Contextmentioning

confidence: 70%

“…ssue of o global earch by international henomenon (Cotula et al 2009;World Bank 2009;GTZ 2009;Friis and Reenberg, 2010; d arp g of f of numbers to informing actors' entities and preferences (Margulis, McKeon and Borras 2013). Despite these tensions about the …”

Section: Ising Interest In Land and Demand For Global Governance E Ve Lmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emergent Global Land Governance

Margulis¹

2014

Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era

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“…Large-scale foreign direct investments (FDI) in land acquisition have expanded in developing countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, with negative impacts on local livelihoods (Cotula et al, 2011;Deininger, 2011). While these investments can contribute to economic development in hosting countries, they also take advantage of relatively favourable economic and regulatory conditions, thus mechanisms are needed in order to maximise their benefits while minimising their adverse social and environmental impacts (Haberli and Smith, 2014).…”

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1. Forests, Trees and Landscapes for Food Security and Nutrition

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Agarwal²,

Jamnadass³

et al. 2015

Forests and Food

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PrefaceConnecting the dots W ith the establishment of the Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) initiative in the year 2007, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) created an international mechanism which effectively links scientific knowledge with political decision-making on forests. The GFEP responds directly to key forest-related policy questions by consolidating available scientific knowledge and expertise on these questions at a global level. It provides decision-makers with the most relevant, objective and accurate information, and thus makes an essential contribution to international forest governance.This report entitled "Forests, Trees and Landscapes for Food Security and Nutrition" presents the results of the fourth global scientific assessment undertaken so far in the framework of GFEP. Previous assessments addressed the adaptation of forests and people to climate change; international forest governance; and the relationship between biodiversity, carbon, forests and people. All assessment reports were prepared by internationally recognised scientists from a variety of biophysical and social science disciplines. They have all been presented to decision-makers across relevant international policy fora. In this way, GFEP supports a more coherent policy dialogue about the role of forests in addressing broader environmental, social and economic challenges.The current report reflects the importance of policy coherence and integration more than any previous GFEP assessment. It comes at a time when the United Nations General Assembly seeks to adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which build upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and converge with the post-2015 development agenda. In this context, the eradication of hunger, realisation of food security and the improvement of nutrition are of particular relevance. By 2050, the international community will face the challenge of providing 9 billion people with food, shelter and energy. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies will fall short of eliminating global hunger and malnutrition. The assessment report in hand provides comprehensive scientific evidence on how forests, trees and landscapes can be -and must be -an integral part of the solution to this global problem. In other words, we must connect the dots and see the bigger picture.The review of the International Arrangement on Forests by the member states of the United Nations Forum on Forests provides a unique opportunity to integrate forests into the SDGs in a holistic manner and to promote synergies in the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda across multiple levels of governance. It is my hope that those with a responsibility for forests, food security and nutrition at all levels will find this report, and its accompanying policy brief, a useful source of information and inspiration.

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“…However, this process can also entail serious long-term consequences for these same local people (Sayer et al 2012;Feintrenie 2014;Rulli and D'Odorico 2014). Large-scale acquisitions have been going on for a long time in many regions of the world, but there has been a marked recent acceleration to supply an increasing global demand for food, fibre and biofuels (von Braun and Meinzen-Dick 2009;Cotula et al 2011;Rulli et al 2013). Those who advocate for large-scale investments in productive agricultural land point out that measures should be in place to ensure that the benefits are shared equitably with the local populations (Cotula 2013;Toft 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%