Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

Wolford, Wendy; Borras, Saturnino M.; Hall, Ruth; Scoones, Ian; White, Ben

doi:10.1002/9781118688229.ch1

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“…http://unfccc.int/meetings/paris_nov_2015/meeting/8926.php. 12 To this end, it is not necessary to establish an ad hoc administration. The world bank or UNEP could function as the third party in charge of giving its approval to contracts as "fair" ones or to refuse it on the basis of several reasons, such as lack of transparency, benefits for the local population and environmental impact assessment, etc.…”

Section: Policy Implications For a Global Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been underlined that most of the contracts were signed in countries with disorganized and fragile states. Not surprisingly, putting the blame for land grabbing on poor quality of the government, improving governance appears to be the key target for the international community to contribute at avoiding land grabbing [12]. Being in total agreement with this position, simply add the necessity of an economic investigation in terms of results stemming from the many different deals and affecting in different ways, employment, GDP, productivity and the like.…”

Section: Addressing the Problem Of Identifying Foreign Direct Investmmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Actually, after the November 2014 meeting between USA and China 10 to take action against global warming, i.e., climate change, and the 21st conference of parties (COP) on December 2015 in Paris 11 to renegotiate the Kyoto protocol, the global community seems determined not to leave the problem unaddressed. Under this respect, it is totally inconsistent not to take position with respect to land grabbing with the aim of avoiding it or at least start to regulate it through an international body 12 acting as a third party to secure fairness in the deals. The inconsistency for the global community of not taking position with respect to big size land transfers, usually followed by a change in the use of land (not only from forest to farmland but also from staple food crops to cash crops) has robust roots in the consolidated economic theory of optimal provision of public non commercial goods at least since Samuelson 1954 seminal article [22].…”

Section: Policy Implications For a Global Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Contribution to a Better Understanding of Global Land Grabbing’s Impact on Employment and Environmental Threats

Castellucci¹,

Arbia²

2017

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Abstract:In the last two decades, the global interest on farmland grew at a remarkable pace. As a consequence, million hectares of land exchanged hands. The ways the transfers happened combined with their geographic concentration in Sub-Saharian Africa, have earned the phenomenon the name of "land grab". The agricultural sector considered a "sunset industry" when commodities prices were declining, is now attractive to financial investors. These foreign investments may be good as they may improve agricultural productivity or instead bad as they may benefit only financial investors. Some results in terms of environmental and local communities' worsening conditions have already emerged. This paper aims to investigate what drives the big size transfers of land, to empirically estimate their effects in terms of local employment and to assess the environmental effects produced by the rapid transformation in the use of vast amount of land in terms of CO 2 emissions. It is also proposed to use the estimation in terms of local employment impact as a way of distinguishing between foreign direct investment and land grabbing.

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Section: Policy Implications For a Global Worldmentioning

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A Contribution to a Better Understanding of Global Land Grabbing’s Impact on Employment and Environmental Threats

Castellucci¹,

Arbia²

2017

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“…A região é um dos centros dinâmicos da economia política mundial do século XXI, dado o rápido aumento da demanda por terra pelas corporações locais e estrangeiras. Wolford et al (2013) complementam essa ideia ao afirmarem que a região do Cerrado tornou-se uma reserva territorial para o investimento estrangeiro em agricultura em grande escala. Tal situação impõe novos desafios para as lutas dos movimentos sociais do campo pela reforma agrária.…”

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Qual O Futuro Das Escolas No Campo?

Vendramini

2015

Educ. rev.

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RESUMO: Tendo como ponto de partida a questão sobre o futuro das escolas rurais ou do campo, o artigo aborda o contexto social, político e econômico que suporta ou não a existência das escolas, bem como uma análise sobre a situação das escolas em diferentes contextos, particularmente no Brasil, em Portugal e nos Estados Unidos. Problematizamos as respostas dadas pelo poder público, acadêmicos e organizações e movimentos sociais sobre o fechamento, a redução do número de alunos e de comunidades rurais com escola, as condições de funcionamento, a distância percorrida pelos alunos, além das implicações das escolas para a vitalidade do campo. Concluímos que o futuro das escolas está diretamente relacionado com o futuro do campo. Palavras-chave: Escola do campo. Escola rural. Brasil. Estados Unidos. Portugal. WHAT IS THE RURAL SCHOOL'S FUTURE?ABSTRACT: Taking the future of rural schools as a starting point, this paper approaches the social, political and economic context that either supports or doesn't support the presence of rural schools. We also offer schools' analysis in different contexts, particularly in Brazil, Portugal and United States. We problematize the public, academic and communal responses on school closure, the student's number and rural communities with schools' reduction, their operating conditions, the distance traveled by the students and the schools' importance to the vitality of the countryside. We conclude that the future of schools is directly related to the future of the countryside.

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“…This can be construed as the agrarian aspect of a global process of 'accumulation by dispossession' (Harvey 2003), since it entails the foreign acquisition of land rights previously held by local or indigenous communities. However, many scholars have argued that the idea of a generic 'global land grab' conceals a wide variety of more specific types of social, political and economic change in the distribution of landed property (Peluso and Lund 2011;Borras and Franco 2013;Hall 2013;Wolford et al 2013). In this respect, they echo the point that Marx himself made when he said that the process of separating peasants from land 'assumes different aspects in different countries, and runs through its phases in different orders of succession, and at different historical epochs' (Marx 1976: 876).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%