Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the motive of China's and India's engagement in African countries … whether China and India have strings attached or land grabbing motives. The study also shows that whether China's and India …

Between 2000 and 2016, China and the UK acquired large areas of land through investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa …

China. In the past two decades, the industrial tree plantation sector has been expanding rapidly in China, especially in … biggest sectors in the current rush for land. Filling this lacuna, this book also reveals that while China has traditionally … the book highlights how large-scale foreign land deals can also take place in traditional 'grabber' countries like China …

This paper examines China’s overseas land-based investments in agriculture. Our hypothesis is that – despite extensive … media, NGO and scholarly attention to China’s global resource-seeking activities – the discourse on Chinese ‘land grabs’ is … insufficiently informed by the available data. Moreover, we argue that China’s overseas land-based investments are part of what can …

In recent years, China’s rapid economic growth has been coupled with a rising demand for natural resources. Great … international concern has arisen over China’s land acquisitions for agricultural and biofuel production, pejoratively called “land … grabbing”. Contrarily, when looking at China’s land acquisitions in a global context, it is not that much different from land …