, although they might be applicable. This may explain why human rights of the local smallholders in large-scale land acquisitions …

We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for … the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is … associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating that the negative effects of land deals outweigh their potential …

patterns of medieval times were overlaid. The land itself came to be perceived and used in a different way. Freedom of trade … exploitative ethic undermined the balance of relationship with the land. The book makes an original connection between the English …