The land grabbers : the new fight over who owns the Earth / Fred Pearce.
Pearce, Fred.
2012
HD111 .P36 2012 (Mapit)
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Title The land grabbers : the new fight over who owns the Earth / Fred Pearce.
Author Pearce, Fred.
ISBN 9780807003244 (alk. paper)
0807003247 (alk. paper)
Imprint Boston : Beacon Press, c2012.
Language English
Description x, 326 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number HD111 .P36 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.3
Summary Reveals the land grab taking place around the world and how corporate and governmental promises about the benefits of development are masking environmental and social destruction and the transfer of wealth out of host countries.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 apocalyptico
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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