Land Acquisitions for Food and Fuel

Margulis, Matias E.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0929-4_345

Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics 2014

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0929-4_345

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Land Acquisitions for Food and Fuel

Matias E. Margulis

Abstract: The recent global proliferation of large-scale land acquisitions is for food and fuel is a new and significant issue in the study of food and agriculture ethics. This article examines large-scale land acquisitions for food and fuel from a global ethics perspective. The first section provides an overview of key definitions, characteristics and trends related to large-scale land acquisitions. The second section explores the idea of a global ethics and situates it within food and agriculture ethics. The third sec… Show more

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Two approaches to land grabbing research

Sljukic,

Sljukic

2023

Zb Matice srp drus nauke

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The first decade of the twenty-first century brought with it multiple crises: food crisis, energy crisis, financial crisis and the crisis caused by climate changes. As one of the responses to this multiple crises, the process of buying/leasing large land areas, predominantly (but not exclusively) in the global South, by Western corporations and funds, as well as by governments of the certain countries whose economic power was on the rise (China, the Gulf states, etc). Given that these large investments in land oftern brought with them certain negative consequences, both for small farmers in the host coutries and for the environment, the process quickly became known as land grabbing. The first reactions came, as usual, from the media, always in search of sensations, and from a number of non-governmental organizations. When scientific circles began to consider the process of land grabbing, there was a division among scientists into two approaches. We call the first of them neoliberal, due to its economic character and insistence on the key role of the market. The second approach, which we call conflictual, dominates the universities; here we find much more complex consideration of the process in question. Both scientific approaches are closely related to the advocacy of certain policies, that is, political responses to land grabbing. The presentation and analysis of two approaches are not goals in themselves, but should help us understand/explain the role and position of Serbia in this global process.

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Two approaches to land grabbing research

Sljukic,

Sljukic

2023

Zb Matice srp drus nauke

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What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Petrescu-Mag

Kopaei

Petrescu

2021

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Foreign land grabbing is acknowledged as a phenomenon that generates disempowerment and dispossession of local farmers, human rights violations. Previous studies have revealed the lack of ethical benchmarks in foreign large-scale land transactions that raise moral concerns. It is evident that when resources are scarce and people depend on them, the balance between values and interests transforms itself into a dilemma. Within this context, the aims of the paper were to bring to the fore critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions and to extend the scant information on what factors determine landowners not to sell their land to foreigners to limit land grabbing. This context justifies the need for a critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions. Therefore, two objectives were set. The first one is to document the role of ethics in large-scale land transactions. Based on the land grabbing literature, authors selected a set of eight land grabbing narratives, most often interrelated and overlapping, that pose ethical considerations. The second objective is to reveal how well a set of variables can predict the “Resistance to sell” the land to foreigners even when an attractive price is offered. As ethics is a social construct, the analysis captured the stakeholders’ perspective on land grabbing. Therefore, a questionnaire was applied to a sample of 332 Romanian landowners from twelve randomly selected counties to reveal their perceptions. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to observe how well a set of seven variables could predict landowners’ “Resistance to sell” their land to foreign buyers. The use of PLS-SEM was justified by the existence of single items and the need to examine many structural model relations. Results showed that the variables with the strongest contribution to the prediction of the dependent variable are the “Probability to join an association for farmers rights defense”, the “Importance of the land price offered by the potential foreign buyer”, and the “Perceived effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land”. Raising awareness on the importance of buyer attributes, increasing people’s perception of the negative effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land, or strengthening the state’s image as a necessary actor to limit land grabbing will increase landowners’ resistance to sell their land to foreigners. Finally, it can be inferred that, within this frame of discussion, ethics should be valued as a means to create economically viable and morally justifiable solutions for foreign large-scale land transactions.

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Land Acquisitions for Food and Fuel

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Two approaches to land grabbing research

Two approaches to land grabbing research

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