The landgrabbers
Subtitle: the new fight over who owns the Planet
By: Fred Pearce
Publisher: Eden Project
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781905811731; 9781905811748
Subjects: Rural Land use; Land tenure; Real property; Foreign ownership; Foreign Investments; Landnahme; Landnutzung; Landwirtschaftliche Nutzfläche; Auslandsinvestition
Description: Across the world there is a land grab. Entire countries are being snatched from under the feet of native residents: Saudia Arabia now owns most of Ethiopia; the Rev Moon owns a slice of South America the size of Switzerland. Triggered by the 2008 world food crisis and the credit crunch, this grab is not just about food.
Notes: Maps on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. One. Land Wars.; title: 1. Gambella, Ethiopia: Tragedy in the commons; title: 2. Chicago, USA: The price of food; title: 3. Saudi Arabia: Ploughing in the petrodollars; title: 4. South Sudan: Up the Nile with the capitalists of chaos; title: pt. Two. White Men in Africa.; title: 5. Yala Swamp, Kenya: One man's dominion; title: 6. Liberia: The resource curse; title: 7. Palm Bay, Liberia: Return of the oil palm; title: 8. London, England: Pinstripes and pitchforks; title: pt. Three. Across the Globe; title: 9. Ukraine: Lebensraum; title: 10. Western Bahia, Brazil; Soylandia; title: 11. Chaco, Paraguay: Chaco apocaliptico; title: 12. Latin America: The new conquistadors; title: 13. Patagonia: The last place on Earth; title: 14. Australia: Under the shade of a coolibah tree; title: pt. Four. China's Back Yard.; title: 15. Sumatra, Indonesia: Pulping the jungle; title: 16. Papua New Guinea: `A truly wild island'; title: 17. Cambodia: Sweet and sour; title: 18. Southeast Asia: Rubber hits the road to China; title: pt. Five African Dreams; title: 19. Maasailand, Tanzania: The white people's place; title: 20. South Africa: Green grab; title: 21. Africa: The second great trek; title: 22. Mozambique: The biofuels bubble; title: 23. Zimbabwe: On the fast track; title: pt. Six. The Last Enclosure.; title: 24. Central Africa: Laws of the jungle; title: 25. Inner Niger Delta, Mali: West African water grab; title: 26. Badia, Jordan: On the commons; title: 27. London, England: Feeding the world.