The land grabbers
Subtitle: the new fight over who owns the Earth
By: Fred Pearce
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807003244
Subjects: Rural Land use; Real property; Farm ownership; Foreign ownership; Foreign Investments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Land wars; title: Gambella, Ethiopia: tragedy in the commons; title: Chicago, USA: the price of food; title: Saudi Arabia: ploughing in the petrodollars; title: South Sudan: up the Nile with the capitalists of chaos; title: White men in Africa; title: Yala Swamp, Kenya: one man's dominion; title: Liberia: the resource curse; title: Palm Bay, Liberia: return of the oil palm; title: London, England: pinstripes and pitchforks; title: Across the globe; title: Ukraine: Lebensraum; title: Western Bahia, Brazil: Soylandia; title: Chaco, Paraguay: Chaco apocalyptic; title: Latin America: the new conquistadors; title: Patagonia: the last place on Earth; title: Australia: under the shade of a coolibah tree; title: China's back yard; title: Sumatra, Indonesia: pulping the jungle; title: Papua New Guinea: 'a truly wild island'; title: Cambodia: sweet and sour; title: Southeast Asia: rubber hits the road to China; title: African dreams; title: Maasailand, Tanzania: the white people's place; title: South Africa: green grab; title: Africa: the second great trek; title: Mozambique: the biofuels bubble; title: Zimbabwe on the fast track; title: The last enclosure; title: Central Africa: laws of the jungle; title: Inner Niger Delta, Mali: West African water grab; title: Badia, Jordan: on the commons; title: London, England: feeding the world.