Agro-investments in Zimbabwe at a time of redistributive land reforms
- 1 January 2011
- book chapter
- Published by Bloomsbury Academic
Abstract
ExtractProsper B. Matondi The acquisition by big investors of large areas of land for the production of agricultural commodities, for forestry, mining and the provision of environmental amenities has recently attracted considerable interest. The phenomenon has been described as ‘land grabbing’ when large-scale acquisitions of land in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and South East Asia are undertaken – by international and domestic investors alike – as an investment in land-related developments (Cotula et al. 2009; FAO, IFAD, UNCTAD and the World Bank Group 2010) . Various terms have been bandied about in the media on the subject of land grabbing in Africa, ‘land grabbing’ being defined as the search for and accessing of land outside the borders of one’s own country for the purposes of investment. Alongside ‘land grabbing’, we hear such terms as ‘commercialization’, ‘colonization’, ‘climate colonialism’, ‘new imperialism’, ‘agro-investments’, ‘new land invasions’ … Large-scale land acquisition can...Keywords
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