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A Critical Review of the Policy Debate on Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Fighting the Symptoms or Killing the Heart?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Zoomers, Annelies |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | This chapter provides an overview of the debate on foreign large-scale land acquisitions (FLA) and shows that there are urgent reasons to deepen and broaden the policy discussion. It provides an update of the land grab debate and shows that there are urgent reasons to deepen and broaden the debate about land grabbing. The chapter argues that it is an oversimplification to suggest that the global land rush can be controlled by strengthening and/or improving institutions, as is often suggested in the land grab debate. Large-scale land acquisition is wrongly depicted as the consequence of a 'sudden' food and climate/energy crisis-it is the logical follow up of globalization, but also a direct outcome of earlier policies. Given the scale and the speed of the process, it is not enough to improve land governance. Guidelines, principles, codes of conduct etc. might help, but land governance will always remain a 'balancing act'. Keywords:land commoditization; foreign large-scale land acquisitions (FLA); globalization; land governance; land grabbing; land policies |
| Starting Page | 55 |
| Ending Page | 77 |
| Page Count | 23 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004252646_004 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://brill.com/previewpdf/book/edcoll/9789004252646/B9789004252646_004.xml |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004252646_004 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
