The article examines the European share in large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims to identify correlation between biofuels policy and large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of this phenomenon. It first identifies the backgrounds that caused the increased interest in biofuel production and, consequently, African land acquisition in recent years. Then, it examines growth in the number of land transactions that take place on the continent. Finally, the paper investigates the share of European capital in land transactions.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2013Austria, Bélgica, Bulgaria, Chipre, República Checa, Alemania, Dinamarca, España, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Grecia, Croacia, Hungría, Irlanda, Italia, Lituania, Luxemburgo, Letonia, Malta, Países Bajos, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, Suecia, África
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2010Austria, Bélgica, Bulgaria, Chipre, República Checa, Alemania, Dinamarca, España, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Grecia, Croacia, Hungría, Irlanda, Italia, Lituania, Luxemburgo, Letonia, Malta, Países Bajos, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, Suecia, África
This report examines the role of European Union (EU) member States, both collectively and individually, in the current reported wave of foreign land investment in Africa that has led to the current use of the term ‘land grabbing’.It discusses whether this role is consistent with the EU’s commitment to advance agriculture in Africa in order to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and member states’ obligations under international human rights law.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de política y resúmenesJulio, 2011Eslovenia, Francia, Estonia, Eslovaquia, Bélgica, España, Luxemburgo, Suecia, Alemania, Dinamarca, Bulgaria, Letonia, Grecia, Malta, Finlandia, Chipre, Lituania, Hungría, Austria, Italia, Portugal, Polonia, Países Bajos, Irlanda, Rumania, República Checa
Great share of rented land in total utilised area as well as a significant variability of land rent and market prices of land causes a need of research that would assess which factors influence the land rent as well as the price of land and how significant such factor are in each state. The average land rent is significantly lower in new EU member states than in the EU 15 members. There is a strong dependence of land rent on the intensity of production. Subsidies have moderate to medium influence.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2010Georgia, Europa, Bulgaria, República Checa, Hungría, Moldavia, Polonia, Rumania, Eslovaquia, Dinamarca, Estonia, Finlandia, Letonia, Lituania, Noruega, Reino Unido, Albania, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Croacia, Italia, Macedonia del Norte, Montenegro, Serbia, Eslovenia, España, Alemania, Países Bajos, Suiza
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and other development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, civil society, the private sector, donors and development specialists on the responsible governance of tenure. By setting out principles and internationally accepted standards for responsible practices, the Voluntary Guidelines will provide a framework and point of reference that stakeholders can use when developing their own policies and actions.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2010África, Libia, Sudán, Burundi, Etiopía, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Camerún, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leona, Panamá, Brasil, Jordania, Rumania, Reino Unido, Alemania, Samoa
The Eastern and Anglophone Western Africa Regional Assessment meeting was organized by a task force consisting of FAO, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, African Land Policy Initiative, the United Nations World Food Programme, United Nations Development Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme officials in Ethiopia.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2001Serbia, Eslovenia, Macedonia del Norte, Eslovaquia, Lituania, Croacia, Azerbaiyán, Ucrania, Kirguistán, Bulgaria, Estonia, Letonia, Belarús, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Hungría, Moldavia, Albania, Armenia, Polonia, Alemania, Georgia, Rumania, República Checa, Europa
The former socialist countries of Eastern Europe (that is, Europe east of Germany and west of the Urals, but including all of Russia) began a transition to a market economy in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. This paper looks at one aspect of that transition: the transition from state ownership to private ownership of agricultural land and the accompanying transition to a land market for agricultural land.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2009Namibia, Burkina Faso, Asia, China, Mongolia, Camboya, Indonesia, Laos, Malasia, Filipinas, Tailandia, Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Bhután, India, Maldivas, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Jordania, Rumania, Finlandia, Alemania, Países Bajos
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Germany, IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Finland, GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit), UN-Habitat, World Bank and UNDP, and IPC (International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty), Food First International Action Network (FIAN), ILC (International Land Coalition), FIG (International Federation of Surveyors) and other development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, civil society, the private se
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