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Pearce, Fred.
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Land use, Rural.
Real property -- Foreign ownership.
Farm ownership.
Investments, Foreign.
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Pearce, Fred.
Land use, Rural.
Real property -- Foreign ownership.
Farm ownership.
Investments, Foreign.
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The
land
grabbers : the new fight over who owns the Earth / Fred Pearce.
by
Pearce, Fred.
Beacon Press, c2012.
Call #:
333.3 P359L
Subjects
Land
use
,
Rural
.
Real property -- Foreign ownership.
Farm ownership.
Investments, Foreign.
ISBN:
9780807003244 (alk. paper)
0807003247 (alk. paper)
Description:
x, 326 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Land
wars -- Gambella, Ethiopia: tragedy in the commons -- Chicago, USA: the price of food -- Saudi Arabia: ploughing in the petrodollars -- South Sudan: up the Nile with the capitalists of chaos -- White men in Africa -- Yala Swamp, Kenya: one man's dominion -- Liberia: the resource curse -- Palm Bay, Liberia: return of the oil palm -- London, England: pinstripes and pitchforks -- Across the globe -- Ukraine: Lebensraum -- Western Bahia, Brazil: Soylandia -- Chaco, Paraguay: Chaco apocalyptic -- Latin America: the new conquistadors -- Patagonia: the last place on Earth -- Australia: under the shade of a coolibah tree -- China's back yard -- Sumatra, Indonesia: pulping the jungle -- Papua New Guinea: 'a truly wild island' -- Cambodia: sweet and sour -- Southeast Asia: rubber hits the road to China -- African dreams -- Maasailand, Tanzania: the white people's place -- South Africa: green grab -- Africa: the second great trek -- Mozambique: the biofuels bubble -- Zimbabwe on the fast track -- The last enclosure -- Central Africa: laws of the jungle -- Inner Niger Delta, Mali: West African water grab -- Badia, Jordan: on the commons -- London, England: feeding the world.
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