The accumulation of dispossession

Bush, Ray; Bujra, Janet; Littlejohn, Gary

doi:10.1080/03056244.2011.582752

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“…In the first debate, the alleged merits or threats of 'land grabs' have resulted in various studies over the past years (see for example Deininger 2011, Bush et al 2011, De Schutter 2011, Borras and Franco forthcoming 2012. In short, it boils down to the question of whether land acquisitions are entirely negative for poor and socially vulnerable groups, or whether they might also entail positive effects -or might even be a sheer necessity to feed the world 1 .…”

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“…A final component of the discourse touches on the effects on the local labour market of China's land-based investments. Some point to the problem that there is less demand for (local) employment, with negative outcomes for social equity, when largescale monoculture production replaces small-scale farming (Murray Li 2011, Bush et al 2011. Chinese companies also regularly dispatch their own labour force, which might entail the influx of large groups of Chinese workers.…”

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China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse

Hofman¹,

2012

Journal of Peasant Studies

104

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This paper examines China's overseas land-based investments in agriculture. Our hypothesis is that -despite extensive media, NGO and scholarly attention to China's global resource-seeking activities -the discourse on Chinese 'land grabs' is insufficiently informed by the available data. Moreover, we argue that China's overseas land-based investments are part of what can be termed 'developmental outsourcing'. Different from a conventional interpretation of outsourcing, this concept refers to global off-shoring in which the state plays a key role in planning, intervention and regulation. This paper does not aim to provide definitive answers, yet intends to scrutinize the data and re-examine the 'land grabbing' discourse. This will be done by studying land-based investments in terms of incidence, size and geographical dispersion over 1949-2011. Where relevant and possible, other variables such as the investor, data source, investment type and outcome will be discussed. Lastly, we will also discuss the data quality and reliability.

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China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse

Hofman¹,

2012

Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…As demonstrated in the 'Kenyan debate' in the pages of this journal in the 1980s and in the work of Bill Warren, we should bear in mind that Marxists have grappled with the question of capitalist development as one of the solutions to this puzzle (Kaplinsky 1980, Leys 1980, Warren 1980. Finally, in light of the scramble by agricultural corporations for land in Africa as documented in the pages of this journal (see Bush et al 2011), the theoretical and political issues raised here are germane to research into current developments in the political economy of Africa.…”

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Continuous primitive accumulation in Ghana: the real-life stories of dispossessed peasants in three mining communities

Ayelazuno

2011

Review of African Political Economy

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The purpose of this article is to provide an opportunity for the peasants in three mining communities in Ghana to voice their experiences of primitive accumulation under contemporary global neo-liberalism. There is a plethora of literature on the exploitation of Africa, drawing on theories of new imperialism or ‘accumulation by dispossession’. However, there is not much grassroots empirical work on how different social groups experience accumulation by dispossession. It seems that NGOs and journalists do better on this than intellectuals. I seek in this article to contribute to filling this lacuna, by focusing on the hardest hit social group, namely, the peasants. I also argue that the existence of this lacuna has major theoretical and political implications for the struggle for alternatives to capitalism and ‘development’ that is distinctly anti-imperialist. The article is based on data collected through focus group discussions and in-depth personal interviews with peasants affected by surface mining activities of transnational mining corporations in three mining communities in the resource-rich Western Region of Ghana: Prestea, Dumasi and Teberebie.

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“…In contrast, the available grazing land for meat production increased substantially (Makhura, 2013). Furthermore, South African producers have been exploring agricultural investment in other parts of Africa, including Mozambique, Zambia, Georgia, Tanzania, Malawi, Ghana, Gabon and Guinea (Hall, 2012;Bush et al, 2011;McGuinness, 2011).…”

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Agricultural land valuation methods used by financiers: The case of South Africa

Middelberg¹

2014

Agrekon

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The accumulation of dispossession

Cited by 37 publications

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China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse

China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse

Continuous primitive accumulation in Ghana: the real-life stories of dispossessed peasants in three mining communities

Agricultural land valuation methods used by financiers: The case of South Africa

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