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Georgia land market development project

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Central Asia, Eastern Europe
Land & Investments
cadastres
land grabbing
rural development
A two-pronged agricultural land reform was devised in Georgia to move toward a market- oriented economy, one prong being the distribution of land parcels of up to 1.25 hectares in ownership to rural families (the “small parcel” approach), and the second being the leasing of the remaining state-owned land in larger allotments to physical and legal entities. The land reform program was intended to create a self-maintaining sector of subsistence-oriented small farmers and a market-oriented sector controlled by larger leaseholders.
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Responsible Investments in Agriculture. In Practice Case Study Review

Reports & Research
September, 2015
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Eastern Europe
Land & Investments
agriculture
extractive industries
land deals
land governance
land grabbing
land investments
land policies
tenure security
EBG Capital was appointed by the German Development Agency (GIZ) to obtain case studies from selected agricultural investment funds (predominantly private equity investors) to determine “best practice” in Responsible Investment (RI) in agriculture and the use of international RI principles and guidelines to achieve this. We requested a case study of a practical (“on-the-ground”) investment in farmland from 33 agricultural investors from around the world.
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Land grabbing in Eastern Europe: global food security and land governance in post - Soviet Eurasia

Conference Papers & Reports
August, 2010
Republic of Korea, China, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia
land grabbing
While ‘land grabbing’ in Africa by China, and other populous, high-income Asian countries such as South Korea got quite some attention, land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia has gone largely unnoticed. However, as this paper shows, recently also in the latter region foreign state and private companies are accumulating vast expanses of farm land. The paper discusses the factors which make post-Soviet Eurasia such an attractive area for international investment, with arguably much more potential than most areas in Africa or Asia.
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Land grabbing under the Cover of Law: Are BRICS-South relationships any different?

January, 2014
South Africa, China, India, Russia, Brazil, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Asia, Northern Africa
land
land grabbing
There is a general consensus among academics, politicians and social movements, that BRICS as ‘new donors’ are increasing both their quantitative and qualitative role in defining what is considered to be ‘the world economic order’.
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Land grabbing: A review of extent and possible consequences in Romania

Land Use Policy Volume 62

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2017
Norway, Romania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land grabbing
land transfers
land use
property rights
research
Land grabbing represents a fundamental problem in the transitional and post-transitional economies. The transfer of land property rights impose a dramatically change of agricultural production structure, including affecting the food safety and security. The main aim of this article is the analysis of the possible effects and transformation imposed by the transfer of land property in a post-transitional agricultural economy and to identify possible solution in valuing the lands as main production factors.
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Rethinking rural politics in postsocialist settings: Rural Communities, Land Grabbing and Agrarian Change in Russia and Ukraine

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Russia, Ukraine
land grabbing
textabstractRural politics in the time of global land grabs and neoliberal agricultural development have received much international attention. However, the processes at work in the post-socialist countryside (such as in Russia and Ukraine) are rarely addressed in the critical agrarian studies debates. The prefix ‘post-’ in post-socialist and post-Soviet studies is often associated with lagging behind. This doctoral study demonstrates that the analysis of rural politics in these settings can generate new insights about contemporary changes in the agrarian world.
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Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves: understanding land grabbing in Russia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Russia
Land Conflicts
dispossession
land grabbing
land reform
textabstractThis paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in
post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of ‘investor’ countries,
nor in the category of ‘target’ countries. Russia has large ‘land reserves’, since in the
1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with
regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is
available, unused or even unpopulated. With rapid economic growth, capital of
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State marionettes, phantom organisations or genuine movements?: The paradoxical emergence of rural social movements in post-socialist Russia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2014
Russia
land grabbing
rural development
Of all the rural social movements in the world, those in post-socialist Russia have been considered to be among the weakest. Nevertheless, triggered by the neo-liberal reforms in the countryside, state attention to agriculture and rising land conflicts, new social movement organisations with a strong political orientation are emerging in Russia today. This sudden burst of civil activity, however, raises questions as to how genuine and independent the emerging organisations are.
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‘Land Grabbing’ in Romania and Interlinkages with the Euroskeptic Populist Narrative

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Romania, Eastern Europe
land governance
land grabbing
The upward land grabbing trend in Eastern Europe has remained understudied, as well as its strong interlinkages with political narratives - more specifically with the ones proposed by Euroskepticism and populism. The current paper looks at how land grabbing has emerged as a topic that fits the Euroskeptic populist discourse in Romania, despite the high levels of trust in the European Union that has characterized the country ever since its EU accession in 2007.
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The Role of the EU in Land Grabbing in Africa - CSO Monitoring 2009-2010 “Advancing African Agriculture” (AAA): The Impact of Europe’s Policies and Practices on African Agriculture and Food Security

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
land grabbing
This report examines the role of European Union (EU) member States, both collectively and individually, in the current reported wave of foreign land investment in Africa that has led to the current use of the term ‘land grabbing’.It discusses whether this role is consistent with the EU’s commitment to advance agriculture in Africa in order to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and member states’ obligations under international human rights law.