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Author | : Madeleine Fairbairn |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1501750097 |
Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice. At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships—from Iowa to Manhattan to São Paulo—that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class. Thanks to generous funding from UC Santa Cruz, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author | : Rachel Nalepa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2011-07-11 |
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ISBN | : 9780982568392 |
Author | : Kate Geary |
Publisher | : Oxfam |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Land tenure |
ISBN | : 1780771800 |
Author | : L. Cotula |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Mr.Rabah Arezki |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1463923333 |
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as well as indicators of land rights security. Results confirm the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature on foreign investment in general, the quality of the business climate is insignificant whereas weak land governance and tenure security for current users make countries more attractive for investors. Implications for policy are discussed.
Author | : Lorenzo Cotula |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Electronic book |
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Author | : Ruth Hall |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1847011306 |
Interrogates the narratives of land grabbing and agricultural investment through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy.
Author | : Rabah Arezki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2013 |
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Author | : Marc Edelman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2016-03-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317569504 |
Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industrial and urbanisation projects. ‘Water grabbing’ and ‘green grabbing’ have further exacerbated social tensions. Early analyses of land grabbing focused on foreign actors, the biofuels boom and Africa, and pointed to catastrophic consequences for the rural poor. Subsequently scholars carried out local case studies in diverse world regions. The contributors to this volume advance the discussion to a new stage, critically scrutinizing alarmist claims of the first wave of research, probing the historical antecedents of today’s land grabbing, examining large-scale land acquisitions in light of international human rights and investment law, and considering anew longstanding questions in agrarian political economy about forms of dispossession and accumulation and grassroots resistance. Readers of this collection will learn about the impacts of land and water grabbing; the relevance of key theorists, including Marx, Polanyi and Harvey; the realities of China’s involvement in Africa; how contemporary land grabbing differs from earlier plantation agriculture; and how social movements—and rural people in general—are responding to this new threat. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Author | : Madeleine Fairbairn |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1501750100 |
Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice. At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships—from Iowa to Manhattan to São Paulo—that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class. Thanks to generous funding from UC Santa Cruz, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.