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Figures, tables and boxes

Introduction: the global land grab hype – and why it is important to move beyond

Introduction: a twofold hype

The current global land rush: what do we know?

Understanding the current global land rush as a hype cycle3

Manifestations on the ground: the case studies presented in this book

Africa

1 Modernizing the periphery: citizenship and Ethiopia’s new agricultural investment policies

Introduction

Background

Table 1.1 Area of farmland acquired by private investors by region, 1992–2010

1.1 Food price index and proportion of investments, projects in Ethiopia, 1992–2010

Methodology

Table 1.2 Overview of the investment planning process

Overview of case studies

1.2 Topographical map of Ethiopia

Table 1.3 Overview of case study investments

Findings

Discussion and conclusion

2 Large-scale land acquisitions in Tanzania: a critical analysis of practices and dynamics

Introduction

Background to Tanzanian agriculture development and foreign investment

Land laws and land acquisition processes

Developments in the land policy and land acquisition processes

Do large-scale land acquisitions exist?

2.1 The number of new companies investing in agriculture, registered by the TIC annually, 2001–12

Concluding remarks

3 Kenya and the ‘global land grab’: a view from below

Introduction

The origins of the system of land grabbing

The Kenyan experience of land grabbing

From resistance to reform

The ‘global land grab’ viewed from Kenya

Table 3.1 Summary table of some recent large-scale land investments in Kenya

Conclusions

Latin America

4 The rapid expansion of genetically modified soy production into the Chaco region of Argentina

Introduction

The expansion of the soy frontier: how did it happen?

4.1 South American Chaco region

4.2 Argentina: current soy-producing provinces

Assessing the impact

Conclusions

5 Transnational land investment in Costa Rica: tracing residential tourism and its implications for development

Introduction

Guanacaste’s historical ‘land grabs’ and connections to North America

The current hype: residential tourism development in Guanacaste

5.1 Planned/announced and completed residential tourism entities (plots, houses and apartments) per type of town, research area

Externally led economic development

Access to land

Policy and community involvement

Conclusion

6 Water grabbing in the Andean region: illustrative cases from Peru and Ecuador

Introduction

Accumulation of water in the hands of the few

Case analysis of Peru

Table 6.1 Farm units, irrigated areas and number of irrigators in Peru

Table 6.2 Largest buyers of lots in the Chavimochic Project, 1994–2006 period

Table 6.3 Buyers of lots in the Olmos Project in auctions on 9 December 2011 and 12 April 2012

Case analysis of Ecuador

Table 6.4 Consumptive use of water according to rights

Table 6.5 Percentages of total and irrigated farmland in Ecuador, 2000

Table 6.6 Formalized concentration of well water

Discussion and conclusions

Asia

7 Land governance and oil palm development: examples from Riau Province, Indonesia

Introduction

Oil palm expansion in Indonesia

Box 7.1 The economics of Riau Province

Land governance and natural resources management

Table 7.1 Land tenure forms as recognized by the Basic Agrarian Law No. 5/1960

7.1 Land administration and responsible land agencies

Table 7.2 Forestland licensing recognized by P.50/2010, which was amended by P.26/2012

Box 7.2 The roles of the forestry sector in Riau Province

Regional autonomy and forestry decentralization

Box 7.3 Decentralization in Riau Province

Competing claims for land and natural resources

Table 7.3 The Indonesian economic corridors and their main economic activities

Concluding remarks

8 Vietnam in the debate on land grabbing: conversion of agricultural land for urban expansion and hydropower development

Introduction

Agricultural land conversion in Vietnam: an overview

Table 8.1 Vietnam land deals in other countries and foreign deals in Vietnam

Table 8.2 Land use change between 2000 and 2009

Hydropower dam development

Table 8.3 The poverty rate of households living in resettlement sites

Discussion and conclusion

9 ‘Land grabbing’ in Cambodia: land rights in a post-conflict setting

Introduction

Setting the scene: Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) and local communities

Land governance and local communities: legal and institutional framework

Impact on local livelihoods

Table 9.1 Timeline of indigenous communities, marking key events and trends

Drivers: forces leading to large-scale acquisition and foreignization of land

The EU sugar regime reform and the EBA

Conclusion

10 Beyond the Gulf State investment hype: the case of Indonesia and the Philippines

Introduction

The GCC investment narrative

Why deals did not materialize

Table 10.1 Announced and realized foreign investments in food crops in the Philippines

Conclusions

11 Tracing the dragon’s footsteps: a deconstruction of the discourse on China’s foreign land investments

Introduction

Unpacking the discourse: China’s global emergence and its hallmarks in foreign affairs

Who are these Chinese? Disaggregating Chinese actors in overseas land acquisitions

China’s land acquisitions in time and place: what is new and what is true?

11.1 Chinese overseas land-based investments, 1949–99

11.2 Chinese overseas land-based investments, 2000–08

11.3 Chinese overseas land-based investments, 2009–11

The impetus for China’s foreign land investments: state guidance and private interests

Going beyond the hype: rethinking the Chinese ‘land grabs’ discourse

12 Conclusion: beyond the global land grab hype – ways forward in research and action

The ‘global land grab’ revisited

Ways forward in research and action

Box 12.1 The Voluntary Guidelines

Final reflections: why the land grab hype was good

Notes

About the contributors

Bibliography

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