Global land grabbing: A critical review of case studies across the world

B Yang, J He - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the past several decades, land investments have dramatically increased to meet global
food and biofuel demands, produce industrial commodities, protect environments and …

Renewable energy deployment in Ghana: the hype, hope and reality

C Kuamoah - Insight on Africa, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Over recent years, few areas of international development research have seen as much
transformation as those relating to energy access and low carbon transitions. Ghana …

[图书][B] The commons in an age of uncertainty: Decolonizing nature, economy, and society

F Obeng-Odoom - 2020 - books.google.com
In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a
few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations. Repeated claims about the" …

[图书][B] Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa

F Obeng-Odoom - 2020 - books.google.com
" The Global South is relatively neglected in research about our" compartmentalised world".
The volume of publications on inequality has increased five-fold since 1992, but many of …

[HTML][HTML] Is anticipatory governance opening up or closing down future possibilities? Findings from diverse contexts in the Global South

K Muiderman, J Vervoort, A Gupta… - Global Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
There is an urgent need to understand how anticipation processes such as scenario
planning impact governance choices in the present. However, little empirical research has …

Land-grabbing, land-use transformation and social differentiation: Deconstructing “small-scale” in Ghana's recent gold rush

H Hausermann, D Ferring, B Atosona, G Mentz… - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
Gold prices hit historic highs following the 2008 financial crisis, catalyzing an international
gold rush. Along Ghana's Offin River, recent mining activities have irreversibly transformed …

[HTML][HTML] Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power

D Mulvaney - Energy Research & Social Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar energy is poised to become a major source of electricity around the world. As
deployment rises to terawatts levels, these industries will drive demand for specific …

[HTML][HTML] Approaches to anticipatory governance in West Africa: How conceptions of the future have implications for climate action in the present

K Muiderman - Futures, 2022 - Elsevier
Methods and tools to anticipate futures are growing in prominence to guide decision-making
under climate change. A research agenda into the steering effects of these processes is …

From boomerangs to minefields and catapults: dynamics of trans-local resistance to land-grabs

L Temper - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores the political processes that activists engaged in contesting land
grabbing have triggered to connect claims across borders and to international institutions …

Biofuel development in Ghana: policies of expansion and drivers of failure in the jatropha sector

A Ahmed, BB Campion, A Gasparatos - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biofuel development was mainly promoted in several parts of Africa as an energy security or
rural development strategy. Jatropha was the biofuel feedstock that received the most …