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Deininger, H. Selod, “What Drives the Global ‘Land Rush’?” World Bank Policy Research
Working Paper Series 5864 (October 2011), p. 9.
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P. B Matondi, K. Havnenik and A. Beyene (eds), Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in
Africa, Zed Books (Uppsala: 2011), p. 69.
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K. Deininger, D. Byerlee, J. Lindsay, A. Norton, H. Selod, M. Stickler, “Rising Global Interest
in Farmland. Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?” World Bank (2011), p. 71.
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L. Cotula, “Land deals in Africa: What is in the contracts” International Institute for
Environment and Development (January 2011), p. 2
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S. Vermeulen and L. Cotula, “Over the heads of local people: consultation, consent and
recompense in large-scale land deals for biofuels projects in Africa” 37(4) Journal of Peasant
Studies (2010), p. 909.
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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier de Schutter, “Mission to
Benin”, A/HRC/13/33/Add.3 (22 December 2009), para. 51.
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Oxfam, “Land and power: The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in
land” Oxfam briefing paper 151 (22 September 2011), p. 23.
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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. 26.
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S. Vermeulen and L. Cotula, “Over the heads of local people: consultation, consent and
recompense in large-scale land deals for biofuels projects in Africa” 37(4) Journal of Peasant
Studies (2010), p. 913-914.
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See generally 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).
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This was analysed in the previous MONITORING report, A. Graham, S. Aubry, R.
Künnemann and S. Monsalve Suárez, “Land Grab study” CSO Monitoring 2009-2010
“Advancing African Agriculture” (AAA): The Impact of Europe’s Policies and Practices on
African Agriculture and Food Security (2010), p. 56-61. This is also what is concluded in a
review of twelve large-scale land deals L. Cotula, “Land deals in Africa: What is in the
contracts” International Institute for Environment and Development (January 2011), p. 39-41.
See also P. B. Matondi and P. Mutopo, “Attracting foreign direct investment in Africa in the
context of land grabbing for biofuels and food security” in P. B Matondi, K. Havnenik and A.
Beyene (eds), Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa, Zed Books (Uppsala: 2011),
p. 68-89.
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As suggested by the initial assumption in R. Arezki, K. Deininger, H. Selod, “What Drives the
Global ‘Land Rush’?” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series 5864 (October 2011),
p. 9: “[…] large investors may find it easier to establish and defend property rights if (land)
governance and the state‘s enforcement capacity and presence are weak. Some investors
unfamiliar with customary tenure systems may indeed believe that it will be easier and more
secure to acquire land directly from governments rather than by engaging in a dialogue with
local rural populations.”
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K. Havnenik, “Grabbing of African lands for energy and food: implications for land rights,
food security and smallholders” in P. B Matondi, K. Havnenik and A. Beyene (eds), Biofuels,
land grabbing and food security in Africa, Zed Books (Uppsala: 2011), p. 28.
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S. Vermeulen and L. Cotula, “Over the heads of local people: consultation, consent and
recompense in large-scale land deals for biofuels projects in Africa” 37(4) Journal of Peasant
Studies (2010), p. 914.
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