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Pushing The Limits: International Land Acquisitions In Comparative Perspective, Ariane Goetz
Pushing The Limits: International Land Acquisitions In Comparative Perspective, Ariane Goetz
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The role of investor countries in large-scale land acquisitions is poorly understood in the contemporary “land grab” literature. Orthodox explanations largely build on deductive analyses that deviate from the emerging empirical evidence, and/or face analytical difficulties when trying to capture why large-scale land acquisitions happen. This thesis investigates the global phenomenon of “land grabbing” from the comparative perspective of two major investor countries: the UK and China. The regional focus is on Sub-Saharan Africa, a major target of land-consuming investments since 2000.
The dissertation advances three arguments: Firstly, the specific details of the home country’s industrial set-up, development challenges, ideological …