Large-Scale Land Acquisitions : Focus on South-East Asia / edited by Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, and Peter Messerli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gironde, Christophe, editor.

Golay, Christophe, editor.

Messerli, Peter, editor.

Series:

International development policy ; Volume 6.

International Development Policy Series ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2015

Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2016.

Language Note:

Text in English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Large-scale land acquisitions, or ‘land grabbing’, has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term ‘land acquisitions’ refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put ‘land grabbing’ into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs' negative consequences.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Historical Perspective / Laurence Roudart and Marcel Mazoyer

2 States as Actors in International Agro-Investments / Martin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz

3 The Role of Property Rights in the Debate on Large-Scale Land Acquisitions / Olivier De Schutter

4 The Impact of Larger-Scale Agricultural Investments on Communities in South-East Asia: A First Assessment / James Zhan , Hafiz Mirza and William Speller

5 Sweet and Bitter: Trajectories of Sugar Cane Investments in Northern Luzon, the Philippines, and Aceh, Indonesia, 2006–13 / Mohamad Shohibuddin , Maria Lisa Alano and Gerben Nooteboom

6 Marginal Land or Marginal People? Analysing Patterns and Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in South-East Asia / Peter Messerli , Amaury Peeters , Oliver Schoenweger , Vong Nanhthavong and Andreas Heinimann

7 From Lagging Behind to Losing Ground: Cambodian and Laotian Household Economy and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions / Christophe Gironde and Gilda Senties Portilla

8 ‘Better-Practice’ Concessions? Lessons from Cambodia’s Leopard-Skin Landscape / Michael B. Dwyer , Emily Polack and Sokbunthoeun So

9 Identifying and Monitoring Human Rights Violations Associated with Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Focus on United Nations Mechanisms and South-East Asia / Christophe Golay

10 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Cambodia: Where Do (Human Rights) Law and Practice Meet? / Ioana Cismas and Patricia Paramita

11 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Livelihoods and Human Rights in South-East Asia / Christophe Gironde and Christophe Golay

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-30475-4

OCLC:

939935381

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004304758 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access