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Based on the map in R. Arezki, K. Deiniger, H. Selod “La ‘course aux terres’. Quelques
éclairages empiriques” 2011/1(237) Afriques Contemporaine (2011), p. 133.
15
R. Arezki, K. Deiniger, H. Selod “ What drives the global land rush?” IMF Working Paper
WP/11/251 (2011), p. 13.
16
HLPE, “Land tenure and international investments in agriculture: A report by the High Level
Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security”
FAO Committee on World Food Security (July 2011), chapter 2.
17
Deininger, K., Byerlee, D., Lindsay, J., Norton, A., Selod, H., Stickler, M., “Rising Global
Interest
in Farmland. Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?” World Bank (2011), p. 15.
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It should be noted here that what is essential is debatable: over consumption of food (for
instance by eating a lot of meat, or by wasting important quantities) can for instance be
criticised, and should, at least, not be considered as an “essential” need.
19
E.g. G. Fischer, E. Hizsnyik, S. Prieler & D. Wiberg, “Scarcity and abundance of land
resources: competing uses and the shrinking land resource base” FAO SOLAW Background
Thematic Report - TR02 (2011), p. 34.
20
E.g. .g. G. Fischer, E. Hizsnyik, S. Prieler & D. Wiberg, “Scarcity and abundance of land
resources: competing uses and the shrinking land resource base” FAO SOLAW Background
Thematic Report - TR02 (2011).
21
.g. G. Fischer, E. Hizsnyik, S. Prieler & D. Wiberg, “Scarcity and abundance of land
resources: competing uses and the shrinking land resource base” FAO SOLAW Background
Thematic Report - TR02 (2011), p. 36.
22
E.g. HLPE, “Land tenure and international investments in agriculture: A report by the High
Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food
Security” FAO Committee on World Food Security (July 2011), p. 23.
23
G. Fischer, E. Hizsnyik, S. Prieler & D. Wiberg, “Scarcity and abundance of land resources:
competing uses and the shrinking land resource base” FAO SOLAW Background Thematic
Report - TR02 (2011), p. 39.
24
Deininger, K., Byerlee, D., Lindsay, J., Norton, A., Selod, H., Stickler, M., “Rising Global
Interest
in Farmland. Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?” World Bank (2011), p. 14.
25
E.g. L. Cotula, “Land deals in Africa: What is in the contracts” International Institute for
Environment and Development (January 2011).
26
See also W. Anseeuw, L. Alden, L. Cotula, M. Taylor, “Land Rights and the Rush for Land:
Findings of the Global Commercial Pressures on Land Research Project” IIED, CIRAD and ILC
(January 2012).
27
For the impact on human rights, see also FIAN International, “Land grabbing ain Kenya and
Mozambique: A report on two research missions and a human rights analysis of land grabbing”
FIAN International (2010).
28
M. O. Odhimabo, “Commercial pressures on land in Africa: A regional overview of the
opportunities, challenges, and impacts” International Land Coalition, CIRAD and RECONCILE
(April 2011).
29
Oxfam, “Land and power: The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in
land” Oxfam briefing paper 151 (22 September 2011), p. 6.
30
Ruth Meinzen Dick, IFPRI, recently said that “in 2009 the balance of costs and benefits was
genuinely unclear. Now [...] the burden of evidence has shifted and it is up to the proponents of
land deals to show that they work.” Quoted in The Economist, “The surge in land deals: when
others are grabbing their land” (5 May 2011), http://www.economist.com/node/18648855
(accessed on 11 February 2012).”
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