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1 online resource (xx, 300 pages) : illustrations
Large-scale land acquisitions, or 'land grabbing', has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term 'land acquisitions' refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. In this book focusing on South-East Asia, a series of thematic and in-depth case studies put 'land grabbing' into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs' negative consequences.
Large-scale land acquisitions: a historical perspective / Laurence Roudart and Marcel Mazoyer -- States as actors in international agro-investments / Martin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz -- The role of property rights in the debate on large-scale land acquisitions / Olivier De Schutter -- The impact of larger-scale agricultural investments on communities in South-East Asia : a first assessment / James Zhan, Hafiz Mirza and William Speller -- Sweet and bitter : trajectories of sugar cane investments in northern Luzon, the Philippines, and Aceh, Indonesia, 2006-13 / Mohamad Shohibuddin, Maria Lisa Alano and Gerben Nooteboom -- Marginal land or marginal people? : analysing patterns and processes of large-scale land acquisitions in South-East Asia / Peter Messerli, Amaury Peeters, Oliver Schoenweger, Vong Nanhthavong and Andreas Heinimann -- From lagging behind to losing ground : Cambodian and Laotian household economy and large-scale land acquisitions / Christophe Gironde and Gilda Senties Portilla -- 'Better-practice' concessions? : lessons from Cambodia's leopard-skin landscape / Michael B. Dwyer, Emily Polack and Sokbunthoeun So -- Identifying and monitoring human rights violations associated with large-scale land acquisitions: a focus on United Nations mechanisms and South-East Asia / Christophe Golay -- Large-scale land acquisitions in Cambodia : where do (human rights) law and practice meet? / Ioana Cismas and Patricia Paramita -- Large-scale land acquisitions, livelihoods and human rights in South-East Asia / Christophe Gironde and Christophe Golay.
edited by Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, and Peter Messerli.
Includes bibliographical references and index.