Only ten years ago, there were more internet users in countries like France or Germany than
in all of Africa put together. But much has changed in a decade. The year 2018 marks the …

Over the last decade, shifting strategies of capital accumulation have deepened the
integration of land and associated primary commodities into circuits of investment. More than …

In land grab narratives, foreign investors are portrayed as predatory resource grabbers and
host states as weak victims or colluders. But foreign land investments are often forged …

This paper analyzes frontier dynamics of land dispossessions in Ethiopia's pastoral lowland
regions. Through a case study of two sedentarization schemes in South Omo Valley, we …

Abstract Background The government of Ethiopia has been promoting large-scale
agricultural investments to accelerate agricultural modernization and improve local people's …

While literature on land grabbing and land formalisation respectively has literally exploded
the past decade, few studies analyse the practical processes taking place at their …

Since 2006, Ghana has experienced a wave of large‐scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for
agricultural purposes. Although these acquisitions are enabled by favourable agricultural …

Despite centuries of state-directed eradication efforts, opium cultivation persists in northern
Laos and Myanmar. The most recent of these efforts is China's Opium Replacement …

The study examines how large-scale agricultural land investments (LIs) affect household
food security in Nigeria. It is one of the few studies in Nigeria that offers new empirical …

Processes involved in making land-based investments in the global South are more
complex than the literature on land-grabbing shows. This study diverges in its focus from …