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Despite the increasing acknowledgment of scholars and practitioners that many large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in developing countries fail or never materialize, empirical evidence about how and why they fail to date is still scarce.
This essay explores the changing landscape of food sovereignty politics in the shadow of the so-called ‘land grab’.
Over the past 10 years, transnational land grabs for rubber tree plantations have proliferated across Laos.
With a focus on the Lower Mekong countries, this study considers the intersecting issues of land access, livelihoods, management of risk and poverty for men and women smallholder farmers, the land poor and the landless, and how these issues might be addressed in policy and practice.
In 1992 the Asian Development Bank coordinated a meeting between government representatives from China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam to discuss regional economic integration.
Research indicates that key parameters of “land grabbing” differ across regions (e.g., ILC 2012) – particularly in view of who invests and/or when the bulk of investments occurred.
Recent research highlights the potential for climate change mitigation projects and large-scale land deals to produce conflicts over land and resources.
Chongjom border is a contested area which reflects power-related relationship between center and its marginal space.
In rural Cambodia indiscriminate, illegitimate and often violent land grabs in the form of Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) have triggered myriad local responses by peasants facing evictions from private and communal lands.
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