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- Land Grabs aren’t all that bad?
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agricultural development Archive
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Foreign Farmland Acquisition – Controlling ‘Land Grabs’
I finished my thesis more than a month ago already but time has not allowed me yet to update my blog for quite a while. It has been an interesting undertaking with some surprising and other not-so-surprising conclusions. Below the abstract of the thesis, titled foreign farmland acquisition – controlling ‘land grabs’. If you are interested in [...] -
Land Grabs aren’t all that bad?
I’ve introduced the threats large long-term agricultural investments can cause in least developed countries here. The question that I then tried to answer was: while the media terms these deals ‘land grabs’ (with a negative connotation implying there is only negative impact), what are the actual opportunities, especially for the local level? Before sharing with [...] -
Losing Land and Livelihoods
As you might be aware of, I am currently busy writing my thesis about ‘land grabbing’ in the least developed countries (see here and here). The thesis is separated into three parts: general descriptions and processes, threats and opportunities, analysis of current strategies and policies to tackle the problem. I’m in the middle of finishing [...] -
Land Grabbing
I’m about to start with my Honour’s research thesis to complete my studies in Utrecht. I chose the topic ‘land grabbing – opportunities and threats to less economically developed countries and regulatory measures and policies for effective control’. One of the lingering effects of the food price crisis of 2007–08 on the world food system is the [...] -
Sri Lanka 2
(Deutsche Version weiter unten) I’m bored. Sure, they really put effort in arranging a nice programme for me, but it really seems they don’t know what to do with me. Let me explain: The plan to work with SewaLanka for a bit seemed to be a great thing; it turned out to be slightly different, however. [...] -
Refugee Settlement
After one week in a Refugee Settlement I’m now back in town, Kampala. I have been staying close to the border to Congo, in the west of Uganda near Lake Albert. There is a refugee settlement which hosts about 20,000 refugees from Sudan, Congo, Rwanda, Somalia and also some internal displaced people from Northern Uganda.I was [...]