Local Perceptions and Vertical Perspectives of a Large Scale Land Acquisition Project in Northern Sierra Leone

Marfurt, Franziska; Käser, Fabian; Lustenberger, Samuel

doi:10.1007/s41412-016-0020-5

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“…The sixth option, chosen in this paper's application in the next section, is to draw boundaries along the situations of social interaction. These are distinct patterns of cooperation, coordination, and conflict among Bürgi 2015, Fielding et al 2015, AOG 2016, Bottazzi et al 2016, Marfurt et al 2016, SiLNoRF and BfA 2016. Yellow boxes denote main actors.…”

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“…Unclear effects on biodiversity, water quality and quantity, and carbon stocks (Fielding et al 2015). Knoblauch et al 2014, Bürgi 2015, Fielding et al 2015, Yengoh et al 2015a,b, Bottazzi et al 2016, Marfurt et al 2016, Millar 2016a,b, SiLNoRF and BfA 2016). Main natural resources: landscape, water, soil, oil palms, vegetation, livestock, sugarcane, energy.…”

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“…The analysis draws on publications from various research projects on the case (Knoblauch et al 2014, Bürgi 2015, Fielding et al 2015, Bottazzi et al 2016, Marfurt et al 2016, Mann 2016, Millar 2016a,b, Mann and Bürgi Bonanomi 2017), ABSL's environmental, social, and health impact assessment (Manley et al 2011), and reports by civil society organizations (Anane andAbiwu 2011, SiLNoRF andBfA 2016). A coauthor of this paper has led one of the multiyear research projects.…”

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“…Impacts on livelihoods, varying between project-affected people and between indicators (access to natural resources, health, financial income, food security, infrastructure, extent of physical and economic displacement; Knoblauch et al 2014, Fielding et al 2015, Yengoh et al 2015a,b, Marfurt et al 2016, Millar 2016a. Reduced livelihood resilience due to loss of access to natural resources (e.g., oil palms), increased dependence on financial income and functioning local markets, dependence on one large-scale investment project, labor scarcity during growing and harvesting seasons, and reduced adaptability of newly formalized land rights (Fielding et al 2015, Marfurt et al 2016, Millar 2016a Economic downturn of project operations in 2015 (SiLNoRF and BfA 2016). Unclear effects on biodiversity, water quality and quantity, and carbon stocks (Fielding et al 2015).…”

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“…Dry season (Nov-Mar) with less than 20 mm/month of rainfall requires irrigation of sugarcane; estimated 80 million m³ drawn from the Rokhel river (Manley et al 2011). Natural flow of some water streams is incompatible with the location of irrigation pivots; rebuilding of streams (Marfurt et al 2016). Risk of contamination of aquatic environments by nutrients and pest control agents (Manley et al 2011).…”

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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

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ABSTRACT. Recent advances in land system science and in institutional analysis provide complementary, but still largely disconnected perspectives on land use change, governance, and sustainability in social-ecological systems, which are interconnected across distance. In this paper we bring together the emerging concept of telecoupled land systems and the established concept of polycentric governance to support the analysis and the development of sustainable land governance in interconnected social-ecological systems. We operationalize the two concepts by analyzing networks of action situations in which interactions between proximate and distant actors as well as socioeconomic and ecological processes cause land use change and affect the sustainability of land systems. To illustrate this integrated approach empirically, we analyze a case of transnational biofuel investment in Sierra Leone. We identify the characteristics of, and activities in, networks of action situations that affect the sustainability of land systems related to this case. Integration of the two concepts of telecoupled land systems and polycentric governance enables analysts to identify interactions in polycentric governance systems (1) as drivers of telecoupled sustainability problems and (2) as transformative approaches to such problems. The method provides one way for linking place-based analysis of land change with process-based analysis of land governance.

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Section: Linking and Operationalizing Analysis Of Telecoupled Systemsmentioning

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Section: Sustainability Challenges In Linked Action Situations In Thementioning

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Section: Polycentric Governance In Telecoupled Resource Systems: the mentioning

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Section: Sustainability Challenges In Linked Action Situations In Thementioning

confidence: 99%

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Large-Scale Land Acquisition as Commons Grabbing: A Comparative Analysis of Six African Case Studies

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Gmür

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Grabbing or investment? On judging large-scale land acquisitions

Mann

Bonanomi

2016

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Although analyses of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA) often contain an explicit or implicit normative judgment about such projects, they rarely deduce such judgment from a nuanced balancing of pros and cons. This paper uses assessments about a well-researched LSLA in Sierra Leone to show that a utilitarian approach tends to lead to the conclusion that positive effects prevail, whereas deontological approaches lead to an emphasis on negative aspects. LSLA are probably the most radical land-use change in the history of humankind. This process of radical transformation poses a challenge for balanced evaluations. Thus, we line out a framework that focuses on the options of local residents but sets boundaries of acceptability through the core contents of human rights. In addition, systemic implications of a project need to be regarded.

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Local Perceptions and Vertical Perspectives of a Large Scale Land Acquisition Project in Northern Sierra Leone

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Large-Scale Land Acquisition as Commons Grabbing: A Comparative Analysis of Six African Case Studies

Grabbing or investment? On judging large-scale land acquisitions

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