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[03/06/2013] La forêt: les communautés rurales prises entre les marchés et l’objectif de préservation de la planète
“Dans le cas des forêts, en plus des pressions exercées par les entreprises privées, locales ou multinationales, les ressources naturelles sont aussi soumises à des forces, souvent bien...
[01/06/2013] Coping with a land-grab world: lessons from Laos
“In 2012, the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern conducted an extensive analysis of land deals in Laos with the support of the Swiss government (SDC) (...
[31/05/2013] Impacts of international timber procurement policies on Central Africa's forestry sector -
“Public concerns about the environmental credentials of timber products have led to the introduction of procurement policies that add criteria other than price into the decision-making process...
[31/05/2013] Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Liberia
The “Bread for All-Protestant Development Service” recently released a document based on three case studies on the palm oil sector in Liberia. The paper first analyses the general...
[30/05/2013] The Angostura Mining Project in the Paramo of Santurban
“The Angostura Project is located 67 kilometres (41 miles) northeast of Bucaramanga, the capital of Santander. Santander boasts several areas with gold resources, thus there are different kinds...
[30/05/2013] VI Forum sur la Gouvernance Forestière en Afrique
“Le 6e  Forum sur la gouvernance forestière en Afrique, qui s’est tenu du 02 au 03 Avril 2013 à Yaoundé, a donné l’opportunité à plus de 200 personnes venant des pays de l’...
[30/05/2013] Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Liberia -
“More and more African governments give away land to companies as they wish, even if occupied by local smallholders. This new phenomenon, called “land grabbing,” is especially widespread in...
[30/05/2013] Land grabs and primitive accumulation in deltaic Bangladesh: interactions between neoliberal globalization, state interventions, power relations and peasant resistance
“This essay provides theoretical and empirical analysis of the interrelationships between land grabs, primitive accumulation and accumulation by dispossession  (ABD) in the context of...
[30/05/2013] The Narratives of Capitalist Land Accumulation and Recognition in Coastal Cameroon
“Coastal Cameroon is currently the arena of land acquisition operations for large-scale agricultural investments, mainly the monoculture of palm oil. Huge agro-industrial concessions are...
[30/05/2013] Foreign land deals in Tanzania - An update and a critical view on the challenges of data (re)production
“In the absence of an easily available source of reliable up-to-date data on foreign land deals in Tanzania, many reports have been published that attempt to provide an overview of these deals...
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