scholarly journals ‘No Matter What—I’ve Got Rights’: Women’s Land Grab Protests in Banyuwangi, East Java

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wening Udasmoro ◽  
Elisabeth Prügl
Keyword(s):  
Land Grab

“Community Interests” and the Role of International Law in the Creation of a Global Market for Agricultural Land

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen von Bernstorff
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Large Scale Land ◽  
The One

The chapter explores the notion of “community interests” with regard to the global “land-grab” phenomenon. Over the last decade, a dramatic increase of foreign investment in agricultural land could be observed. Bilateral investment treaties protect around 75 per cent of these large-scale land acquisitions, many of which came with associated social problems, such as displaced local populations and negative consequences for food security in Third World countries receiving these large-scale foreign investments. Hence, two potentially conflicting areas of international law are relevant in this context: Economic, social, and cultural rights and the principles of permanent sovereignty over natural resources and “food sovereignty” challenging large-scale investments on the one hand, and specific norms of international economic law stabilizing them on the other. The contribution discusses the usefulness of the concept of “community interests” in cases where the two colliding sets of norms are both considered to protect such interests.

India’s land grab deals in Ethiopia: Food security or global politics?

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 343-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Hules ◽  
Simron Jit Singh
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Land Grab

Land Grab

2011 ◽  
pp. 628-630
Author(s):  
Zenia Kish
Keyword(s):  
Land Grab

Land grab governance and the crisis of market rule

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-50
Author(s):  
Philip McMichael
Keyword(s):  
Land Grab ◽  
Market Rule

scholarly journals Facing Scarcity in a Land Grab Context in Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 153-171
Author(s):  
Hugues Morell Meliki
Keyword(s):  
Rural Area ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Land Grabs

This paper undertakes a critical exploration of the mechanisms via which communities cope with scarcity resulting from land grabs. It explores two ranges of practices – residential multilocality and sorcery – through the lens of resilience. Residential multilocality appears as a novel living arrangement dealing with resource scarcity, while sorcery is used as a tool for bolstering a policy of resource regeneration. Thus, instead of rushing to nearby cities as a response to scarcity, the communities observed reinstate two silenced dynamics. Firstly, they underscore the rise of inter, and intra-rural mobility entrenched in the paradigm of residential multilocality. The paradigm embodies a scarcity management strategy in the sense that the abundance of vital resources in one rural area attracts villagers from other communities struggling with scarcity. Secondly, sorcery is used as a strategy to command eco-friendly behavior of villagers in order to successfully achieve a resource regeneration policy.

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