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War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land

Reports & Research
February, 2023
Ukraine
Land & Investments
land governance
food security
agriculture
land acquisitions
land investments
foreign investment
investment funds
land grabbing
farmers
War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land, exposes the financial interests and the dynamics at play leading to further concentration of land and finance.
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Adquisiciones de tierra agrícola fallidas: un creciente legado de desastre y dolor

Un creciente legado de desastre y dolor

Reports & Research
June, 2018
Global
Land & Investments
conflict of interest
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
agriculture
land grabbing
El año 2017 terminó como uno de los más fatídicos para los defensores de la tierra. También fue un año muy malo para muchos acaparadores de tierras. Un número significativo de adquisiciones, de grandes extensiones de tierras agrícolas, colapsó, agregándose a una lista creciente de proyectos que han fracasado en años recientes. Si bien esto es una buena noticia para las comunidades afectadas, a muchas de ellas se les deja enfrentadas a esta caída y teniendo que seguir luchando por recuperar sus tierras.
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Successful Land Individualization in Trans-Caucasia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2004
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
land reform
agrarian reform
agriculture
land markets
land-based financing
private ownership
private property
How do we measure the success of agrarian transformation? Land reform, in- terpreted in the transition context as privatization of land with the associated is- sues of land market development and the restructuring of traditional large farms, is only one facet of a multi-dimensional process of transition to a market-oriented agriculture. However important land reform is, success requires progress in all relevant dimensions.
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Agricultural investment at the crossroads in Cambodia:

Towards inclusion of smallholder farmers?

Reports & Research
August, 2022
Cambodia
Land & Investments
development
land policies
agriculture
land investments
farmers
smallholders
Agricultural investment at the crossroads in Cambodia: Towards inclusion of smallholder farmers?
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The Challenge of Protecting Community Land Rights: An Investigation into Community Responses to Requests for Land and Resources

November, 2019
Urban Tenure
infrastructure
development
mining
agriculture
land
foreign investment
research
A new wave of agricultural commercialisation is being promoted across Africa’s eastern seaboard;by a broad range of influential actors – from international corporations to domestic political and business elites. Growth corridors;linking infrastructure development;mining and agriculture for export;are central to this;and are generating a new spatial politics as formerly remote borders and hinterlands are expected to be transformed through foreign investment and aid projects.
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Agriculture and Rural Cooperation: Examples from Armenia, Georgia and Moldova

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Armenia, Georgia, Moldova
development
rural development
rural planning
agriculture
land economics
farmers
farmers associations
rural population
This paper was prepared within the “Cooperatives and their alternatives” component of the Agrarian Structures Initiative (ASI) which a regional program of FAO in Europe and Central Asia. This paper outlines some of the main issues influencing the development (or not) of farmer and rural organisations and presents in further detail the specific situation in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova. All three countries returned ownership of the majority of land to the rural population.
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Land Ownership and the Development of the Land Market in Georgia

A Report Commissioned by Alliances KK and Undertaken by a Private Consultant

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Georgia
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
cadastres
land register
land registration
land reform
pastoral lands
agriculture
land markets
land economics
land rights
control rights
land ownership
private ownership
private property
This report was produced by a private consultant Alexander Gvaramia a legal expert on land laws and issues and a member of the Swiss Development Cooperation funded Mercy Corps Georgia implemented Alliances Kvemo Kartli Programme, Helen Bradbury, a market development programme working in the dairy, beef and sheep value chains in Dmanisi, Tetritskaro and Tsalka municipalities of Kevmo Kartli. The International Centre for Conflict Negotiation (ICCN) a partner of Alliances KK was responsible for facilitating the concept and production of the report.
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Liberal land reform in Kazakhstan? The effect on land rental and credit markets

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2020
Kazakhstan
land reform
agriculture
land markets
land transactions
land transfers
land rent
private ownership
This study analyses the effect of Kazakhstan’s 2003–2005 agricultural land reform on land rental and credit market participation. Although the reform declared an intention to facilitate efficient land alloca- tion, we observe a major land concentration. We analyze whether new land relations stimulated land sales and rental markets and made credit more accessible.
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Development of the Land Market in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Kazakhstan
Land & Investments
land reform
agrarian reform
land use
agricultural land management
agriculture
land use change
land markets
land investments
land ownership
private ownership
The paper provides the analysis of improving the land reform in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors examine the main development stages of land ownership relations, during which the work has been performed to transform agricultural enterprises, privatize land and change the land use. The main legal acts, intended to regulate the issues of land ownership and territorial organization and creating conditions for the development of the land market, are shown.
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Forests to the Foreigners

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Gabon

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2021
Gabon
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
land-use planning
forestry
agriculture
mining
land acquisitions
For the past decade, the land rush discourse has analyzed foreign investment in land and agriculture around the world, with Africa being a continent of particular focus due to the scale of acquisitions that have taken place. Gabon, a largely forested state in Central Africa, has been neglected in the land rush conversations, despite having over half of its land allocated to forestry, agriculture, and mining concessions. This paper draws on existing evidence and contributes new empirical data through expert interviews to fill this critical knowledge gap.