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  1. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Diciembre, 2018
    Sierra Leona, África

    There is wide engagement with large-scale land deals in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly from the perspectives of development and international political economy. Recently, scholars have increasingly pointed to a gendered lacuna in this literature. Engagement with gender tends to focus on potential differential impacts for men and women, and it also flags the need for more detailed empirical research of specific land deals.

  2. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Marzo, 2018

    In Nigeria, the recurring impoverishment and other negative socioeconomic impacts endured by landholders affected by expropriation are well-documented and call into question the Land Use Act's (LUA) effectiveness in protecting local land rights. The World Bank's Land Governance Assessment Framework found that, in Nigeria, "a large number of acquisitions occurs without prompt and adequate compensation, thus leaving those losing land worse off, with no mechanism for independent appeal even though the land is often not utilized for a public purpose".

  3. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Abril, 2019

    On the heels of the rural ‘land grab’ debate, the ongoing urban transition combined with large-scale urban infrastructure investments and land scarcity forces us to also pay more attention to issues of land in urban discussions. Yet how can we conceptualise land-related problems in order to connect and integrate rural and urban debates in overarching discussions of development?

  4. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Enero, 2013
    Rusia

    textabstractThis paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in
    post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of ‘investor’ countries,
    nor in the category of ‘target’ countries. Russia has large ‘land reserves’, since in the
    1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with
    regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is
    available, unused or even unpopulated. With rapid economic growth, capital of

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