| TopDescriptionSeveral studies have investigated the impetus and implications behind large-scale land acquisitions/deals at the global level; however, intranational factors within communities and societies have not received much attention from researchers. The Handbook of Research on In-Country Determinants and Implications of Foreign Land Acquisitions examines the economic, sociological, and environmental issues surrounding land transactions and the impact these deals may have on local households and communities. Focusing on international issues as well as domestic concerns, this publication is a useful reference for policymakers, academics, researchers, and advanced-level students in various disciplines. TopTable of Contents and List of Contributors
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Foreword
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Chapter 1 Simplice A. Asongu, Christian L. Nguena
Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions have been covered substantially in recent literature. Despite the wealth of theoretical and empirical...
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Equitable and Sustainable Development of Foreign Land Acquisitions: Lessons, Policies, and Implications
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Chapter 2 Andrew Onwuemele
The acquisition of vast tracts of land by private investors now referred to as land grabbing became a widespread phenomenon after 2007. The nature...
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Implications of Foreign Land Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Grey Literatures
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Chapter 3 Oluyomi Ola-David
This chapter examines the political economy of Sino-African land acquisition with emphasis on land use for agriculture. Set within an institutions...
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Sino-African Foreign Direct Investment in Land: Problems and Prospects
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Chapter 4 Renny Rueda Castañeda
This chapter analyzes how, historically, normative interventions on the idea of “development” at the Bretton Woods Institutions have defined a...
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Land Acquisition and the Semantic Context of Land within the Normative Construction of “Modern Development”
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Chapter 5 Essien D. Essien
Contemporary studies surrounding the land grabbing phenomenon in Africa have revealed two findings. First, the purchase or lease of vast tracts of...
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Exploring the Food Security Strategy and Scarcity Arguments in Land Grabbing in Africa: Its Ethical Implications
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Chapter 6 Sheetal Agarwal
Displacement and its impact on the social, cultural, and economic lives of the affected people is a huge discourse in contemporary India, but very...
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Missing Gender Concerns in Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement: The Case of India
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Chapter 7 Patience Mutopo, Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya
The notion of large-scale land acquisitions has been topical in recent years in Zimbabwe; it has even created more nuanced debates, since 70% of...
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Livelihoods, and Gender Configurations in Zimbabwe
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Chapter 8 Olanrewaju E. Ajiboye, Olabisi S. Yusuff
Land grabs, a recent phenomena, have been documented to have effects on the activities of the indigenous farmers. This chapter examines the impact...
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Foreign Land Acquisition: Food Security and Food Chains – The Nigerian Experience
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Chapter 9 Kassa T. Alemu
This chapter investigates land deals processes and the effects on livelihoods in Gambella and Benishangul-Gumuz. It applies quantitative and...
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International Land Deals and Agricultural Investment in Ethiopia: Cases from Gambella and Benishangul-Gumuz Regions
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Chapter 10 Falendra Kumar Sudan
There has been large-scale Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in land in India for promotion of Special Economic Zones (SEZs). The key drivers of land...
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Foreign Direct Investment in Land Acquisitions in India: Evidence and Challenges
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Chapter 11 Yusuf Noah, Olatunji Abdulganiy, Issah Moshood
Of the major factors of production, land is considered the most important. Land is such a valuable resources that the desire to acquire it has been...
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Factors Influencing Foreign Land Acquisition and Sustainable Development in Nigeria
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Chapter 12 James E. Conable
This chapter investigates the link between foreign land acquisitions and corruption and its implications for sustainable livelihoods in two...
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Foreign Land Acquisitions, Corruption, and Sustainable Livelihood in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Cases of Mozambique and Tanzania
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Chapter 13 Evans S. Osabuohien, Ciliaka M. Gitau, Uchenna R. Efobi, Michael Bruentrup
Some of the factors that have been attributed to the global increase of Foreign Land Deals (FLDs) include the three Fs (food, fuel, and finance)...
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Agents and Implications of Foreign Land Deals in East African Community: The Case of Uganda
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Chapter 14 Ben E. Aigbokhan, Kehinde O. Ola
This chapter focuses on the impact of foreign land acquisition on the livelihood of the host communities. The chapter investigates Presco...
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Foreign Land Acquisitions: Household Livelihood with Some Evidence on Nigeria
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Chapter 15 John Gasu, Gideon Agbley
The chapter discusses how the security of communal lands tenureship and the livelihood choices that such land entitlements confer on peasants in...
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Land Deals, Dispossession, and the Threat to Peasant Livelihood in Northern Ghana
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Chapter 16 Felicia O. Olokoyo, Tayo O. George, Uchenna R. Efobi, Ibukun Beecroft
This chapter examines the extent to which land deals affect the sustainable income of households in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. Particular interest is...
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Land Deals and Sustainable Income: The Case of a Rural Community in Ogun State, Nigeria
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Chapter 17 Francis Matambirofa
Since 2000, Zimbabwe has embarked on an unplanned “land reform” referred to as the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). The tumult experienced...
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Sowing Political Capital and Harvesting Economic Regression: White Commercial Farm Seizures in Zimbabwe
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Chapter 18 David O. Omole, Julius M. Ndambuki
This chapter critically assesses the administration of land and water resources in Nigeria. Reasons why the Land Use Act has not met its objectives...
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Nigeria's Legal Instruments for Land and Water Use: Implications for National Development
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Chapter 19 Godfrey E. Massay
Most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania, liberalized their land policies in the early 1990s because of the pressure from...
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Compensating Landholders in Tanzania: The Law and the Practice
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Chapter 20 Manyanhaire Itai Offat
This chapter explores the land reform-tobacco production-wood resources nexus using a political ecology theoretical framework. It uses secondary...
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Land Reform, Tobacco Production, and Wood Resources in Zimbabwe
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Chapter 21 Abiodun E. Obayelu
Agriculture is in critical state in Nigeria with domestic food production being less than the growing population. The chapter analyzes the ongoing...
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Transformation from Subsistence to Commercial Agriculture in Nigeria: The Effects of Large-Scale Land Acquisition on Smallholder Farmers
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TopTopics Covered- Agricultural Production and Export
- Colonial Heritage
- Environmental Impacts
- Food Security
- Land Conflicts
- Land Reforms
- Legal Frameworks of Land Acquisitions
TopAuthor(s)/Editor(s) BiographyEvans Osabuohien has a PhD (Economics) and started teaching and researching at Covenant University, Nigeria, in 2004. He is currently a Research Fellow at German Development Institute, Bonn, with a Fellowship from The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH). He has held the same Fellowship (AvH) at German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg (January-September, 2013). His other internationally recognized awards include: Swedish Institute’s Guest Doctoral Fellowship where he was a guest PhD Candidate at Lund University, Sweden (2009/2010); Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa’s (CODESRIA) grant for PhD Thesis (2009); First Prize for FLACSO-WTO Chair Award (2012). He has executed funded research projects for international organizations like: The Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR); African Economic Research Consortium (AERC); Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS); Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (TRAPCA); among others. His research interest entails Institutional, International, and Development Economics where he has published over 50 scholarly articles and made presentations in international conferences/workshops on five continents. He reviews for many international journals, including World Development; African Development Review; South African Journal of Economics; Journal of Environmental Policy and planning; Journal of Environmental Planning and Management; The Developing Economies; The Journal of Developing Areas; and Journal of Sustainable Development. He is also on the Editorial Board of many journal outlets: Current Research Journal of Economic Theory; Asian Economic and Social Society; Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism; and SAGE Publications. He is a member of these learned associations: Nigerian Economic Society; Royal Economic Society; Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP); Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics; African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium (AGRODEP); AERC Network; CODESRIA; UNCTAD Virtual Institute; and Association of African Young Economists (AAYE). | |
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