CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Schirmer Maciel, Andressa |
|---|---|
| Title | The Shadow Side of Large Scale Land Acquisition |
| Summary | Over the past decade a sharp increase in land deals from foreign and national actors grabbed the attention of researchers all around the globe. Researchers and the international community quickly began debating the benefits or disadvantages of such deals, as well as how they should be described. The rush for land reached its peak just after the food crisis, which raised awareness and concern not just among food insecure countries, but countries considered secured and developed. Still, although millions of hectares of land are at stake, little is known about the outcomes of these deals. It is important to know the reasons why such deals fail, since these failures may be the result of conflicts, governments’ disregard towards farmers, weak land tenure policies and hunger, the latter of which is present in the majority of the targeted countries. Therefore, this research focuses on the influence of the international community over land deals and on policies of target countries, as well as the importance of food security for their outcomes. For this purpose, through a quantitative analysis, this research investigates failed land deals, taking into consideration numbers and information regarding different countries’ Freedom and Food Security. This research also explores a case study of Madagascar, the country with the highest number of failed deals. The results of the data examined strengthens the hypothesis that food security and the international community is strongly correlated to failed land deals, once rural society can use its “secret weapon” to fight for their rights. |
| Supervisor | Cartwright, Andrew |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/schirmer_andressa.pdf |
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