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Book SynopsisLarge-scale land acquisitions, or ‘land grabbing’, has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term ‘land acquisitions’ refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put ‘land grabbing’ into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs' negative consequences. Contributors include: Maria Lisa Alano, Ioana Cismas, Olivier De Schutter, Michael Dwyer, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Andreas Heinimann, Martin Keulertz, Marcel Mazoyer, Peter Messerli, Hafiz Mirza, Vong Nanhthavong, Gerben Nooteboom, Patricia Paramita, Amaury Peeters, Emily Polack, Laurence Roudart, Oliver Schoenweger, Gilda Senties, Sokbunthoeun So, Mohamad Shohibuddin, William Speller, Eckart Woertz, and James Zhan.
Table of ContentsForeword Preface List of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Notes on Contributors PART 1: Setting the Scene: History, State and Law 1 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Historical Perspective Laurence Roudart and Marcel Mazoyer 2 States as Actors in International Agro-Investments Martin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz 3 The Role of Property Rights in the Debate on Large-Scale Land Acquisitions Olivier De Schutter PART 2: Land Dynamics and Livelihoods in South-East Asia 4 The Impact of Larger-Scale Agricultural Investments on Communities in South-East Asia: A First Assessment James Zhan, Hafiz Mirza, and William Speller 5 Sweet and Bitter: Trajectories of Sugar Cane Investments in Northern Luzon, the Philippines, and Aceh, Indonesia, 2006–13 Mohamad Shohibuddin, Maria Lisa Alano, and Gerben Nooteboom 6 Marginal Land or Marginal People? Analysing Patterns and Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in South-East Asia Peter Messerli, Amaury Peeters, Oliver Schoenweger, Vong Nanhthavong, and Andreas Heinimann 7 From Lagging Behind to Losing Ground: Cambodian and Laotian Household Economy and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions Christophe Gironde and Gilda Senties Portilla 8 ‘Better-Practice’ Concessions? Lessons from Cambodia’s Leopard-Skin Landscape Michael B. Dwyer, Emily Polack and Sokbunthoeun So PART 3: Human Rights and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions 9 Identifying and Monitoring Human Rights Violations Associated with Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Focus on United Nations Mechanisms and South-East Asia Christophe Golay 10 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Cambodia: Where Do (Human Rights) Law and Practice Meet? Ioana Cismas and Patricia Paramita 11 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Livelihoods and Human Rights in South-East Asia Christophe Gironde and Christophe Golay Index
