The land grabbers : the new fight over who owns the earth

Fred Pearce

An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world`s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of South America, and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Veteran science writer Fred Pearce spent a year circling the globe to find out who was doing the buying, whose land was being taken over, and what the effect of these massive land deals seems to be.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Pearce, Fred
Publisher:	Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press
Subject:	Bodenspekulation \| Real estate speculation \| Bodenmarkt \| Land market \| Grundeigentum \| Real property \| Landnutzung \| Land use \| Auslandsinvestition \| Foreign investment \| Welt \| World \| Bodennutzung \| Grundstückskauf
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Extent:	X, 326 S. Kt.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Fallstudiensammlung
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Land wars -- Gambella, Ethiopia: tragedy in the commons -- Chicago, USA: the price of food -- Saudi Arabia: ploughing in the petrodollars -- South Sudan: up the Nile with the capitalists of chaos -- White men in Africa -- Yala Swamp, Kenya: one man's dominion -- Liberia: the resource curse -- Palm Bay, Liberia: return of the oil palm -- London, England: pinstripes and pitchforks -- Across the globe -- Ukraine: Lebensraum -- Western Bahia, Brazil: Soylandia -- Chaco, Paraguay: Chaco apocalyptic -- Latin America: the new conquistadors -- Patagonia: the last place on Earth -- Australia: under the shade of a coolibah tree -- China's back yard -- Sumatra, Indonesia: pulping the jungle -- Papua New Guinea: 'a truly wild island' -- Cambodia: sweet and sour -- Southeast Asia: rubber hits the road to China -- African dreams -- Maasailand, Tanzania: the white people's place -- South Africa: green grab -- Africa: the second great trek -- Mozambique: the biofuels bubble -- Zimbabwe on the fast track -- The last enclosure -- Central Africa: laws of the jungle -- Inner Niger Delta, Mali: West African water grab -- Badia, Jordan: on the commons -- London, England: feeding the world.
ISBN:	978-0-8070-0324-4
Classification:	Politische Geographie ; Kulturlandschaft ; Volkswirtschaftliche Ressourcen, Umweltökonomie
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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