September 17, 2012
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Cambodia: community forestry v land grabs is more complicated than I thought
November 11, 2011
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The latest (big) numbers on land grabs, and some powerful case studies
September 22, 2011
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Maasai v investors in Ngorongoro, Tanzania: guest post by Jane Lonsdale
July 28, 2011
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Land grabs update: (a lot) more hectares than we thought, and definitely bad for development
May 10, 2011
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Land grabs: what's in the contracts? And an Indian land grab in Ethiopia
March 22, 2011
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A good new update on land grabs
August 12, 2009
Two very good summaries of the state of play on the spate of ‘land grabs’ which came to prominence last year with Daewoo’s attempts to acquire half of Madagascar (for free) on a 99 year lease (see previous overview and Daewoo blogs ). A July paper from the International Land Coalition argues that the problem goes beyond food: ‘not only
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What’s different about the current spate of land grabs in poor countries?
May 27, 2009
This week’s Economist has an excellent overview of the issues surrounding what it calls ‘outsourcing’s third wave’ (the first two were manufacturing and services) – deals in which foreign investors are buying up huge tracts of land in poor countries to produce food to ship back home (see map). Some highlights: Saudi investors are spending $100m to lease land from the
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