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De l’accaparement des terres à la stratégie du gagnant-gagnant - Saisir les opportunités offertes par les investissements internationaux dans l’agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2009
Les achats de terres agricoles par des étrangers, en Afrique et ailleurs, sont devenus un motif d’inquiétude. De nombreux observateurs considèrent qu’ils équivalent à une forme moderne de colonialisme et qu’ils menacent la sécurité alimentaire des populations pauvres. Cependant, les...
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Del acaparamiento de tierras al ganar-ganar - Aprovechando las oportunidades que brindan las inversiones internacionales en agricultura
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2009
Las adquisiciones extranjeras de tierras agrícolas en África y en otras partes se han vuelto un motivo de preocupación. Muchos observadores las consideran una nueva forma de colonialismo que amenaza la seguridad alimentaria de los pobres. Sin embargo, las inversiones podrían ser una buena...
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The Breakdown of the Doha Round Negotiations - What Does it Mean for Dealing with Soaring Food Prices?
Hallam, David; Konandreas, Panos; Morrison, Jamie; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2008
In the period leading up to the July 2008 WTO ministerial meeting, the crisis of soaring food prices was used both to argue for a speedy resolution of the negotiations, and to argue against any further reductions in protection that might result from a new agreement. Are the arguments relating to...
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Foreign Direct Investment in Agriculture : Land Grab or Food Security Improvement?
Häberli, Christian - 2016
Is there something really new about "land grab" except its extent? What is wrong with an investment contract allowing … and process sugar cane and palm oil into ethanol for Europe and China? Why would the governments signing such investment … contracts not know whether and which foreign investment projects are best for their country, and how to attract them? This …
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GMO Corn, Mexico, and Coloniality
Hernandez Lopez, Ernesto - 2020
Genetically modified (“GMO”) corn germinates legal controversies in México. Since 2013, Mexican courts have temporarily suspended GMO corn because it threatens biodiversity. In the Colectividad del Maíz lawsuit, courts have prohibited México from issuing commercial GMO permits while the...
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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … until the present, and analyzes the role of contemporary trade, aid and development practices in ameliorating or … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental …
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National Policy Responses to High Food Prices
Morrison, Jamie; Rapsomanikis, George; Sarris, Alexander; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2008
The prices of many staple food commodities have increased substantially over the past year. As a result, many developing countries are facing larger food import bills. The cereal import bill of the world’s poorest countries is forecast to rise by 56 percent in 2007/08, following an already...
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus W.; Selod, Harris - 2011
are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro …-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature on foreign investment in general, the quality of the business climate …
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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis
Narula, Smita - 2015
The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...
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How institutions shape land deals : the role of corruption
Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2014
Large-scale land acquisitions, or "land grabs", concentrate in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendly setting caused by a weak institutional framework. We argue that corrupt elites exploit this given institutional set-up to strike deals with international...
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