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Serrano Bosquet, F. J., & Acebo Gutiérrez, C. J. (2019). Land grabbing of farmland : the food security of the world in the hands of a few. Revista Luna Azul (On Line), (49), 185–199. https://doi.org/10.17151/luaz.2019.49.11
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The practice of “land grabbing”, or the large-scale hoarding of fertile lands in developing countries by rich countries, transnational corporations and individuals, in order to grow food beyond their borders, is today reaching historically unparalleled figures. Although the dominant discourse vindicates this process as an opportunity for the countries that are recipients of these practices, numerous voices warn about the role played by this phenomenon in the (re-) emergence and development of global and local problems. The objective of this work is to demystify the theoretical, political and historical proposal endorsed and promoted by international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in the light of conflicts over the use and ownership of land. Together, food security, impacts on small and medium-sized local farmers and migration are generating the current model of international land grabbing.
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FAO. (2009). Déclaration du directeur général de la FAO. Roma, Italia: FAO.
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Madeley, J. (2012). Land grabbing. Appropriate Technology, (39): 50-51.
Méndez, A. (2012). El acaparamiento de tierras y su impacto en la seguridad alimentaria mundial. Documentos de Opinión, (43): 1-15. Retrieved from http://www.ieee.es/Galerias/fichero/docs_opinion/2012/DIEEEO43-2012_AcaparamientoTierras_AnaMendezPazos.pdf.
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Ramutsindela, M. & Sinthumule, I. (2017). Property and Difference in Nature Conservation. Geographical Review, 107(3): 415–432. doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2016.12208.x.
Reuter, E. & Richter, O. (1941). Las Implicaciones Sociales de las Tendencias Demográficas. Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 3 (3): 37-52. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3537378.
Serrano, F. J. & Rivas, E. L. (2014). El lugar de la Filosofía de la agronomía dentro del campo de la Filosofía de las ciencias de la vida. Metatheoria – Revista de Filosofía e Historia de la Ciencia, 5(1): 175-186. Retrieved from http://www.metatheoria.com.ar/index.php/m/article/view/140.
Singer, P. (2013). Ética y agricultura. Retrieved from https://lalineadefuego.info/2013/01/21/etica-y-agricultura-por-peter-singer/.
Spieldoch, A. & Murphy, S. (2009). Agricultural Land Acquisitions: Implications for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation. (in) M. Kugelman. & S. Levenstein. (Eds), Land Grab? The Race for the World’s Farmland (p. 39-53). Pennsylvania: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Stedjan, S. (2015). Land is Not the New Oil: What the Nigerian Oil Experience Can Teach South Sudan About Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Large Scale Land Acquisition. Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs, 3 (Issue 2 The 9 Billion People Question: The Challenge of Global Resource Scarcity), 168-234. Retrieved from https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/jlia/vol3/iss2/11
Tisdale, S. & Nelson, W. (1975). Soil fertility and fertilizers. New York: MacMillan.
Trápaga, Y. (2012). El fin de la frontera agrícola y el acaparamiento de tierras en el mundo. Investigación Económica, LXXI (279): 71-92. Retrieved from http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=60123307004.
Turrent, A. & Cortés, J. (2005). Ciencia y tecnología en la agricultura mexicana: I. Producción y sostenibilidad. Terra Latinoamericana, 23(2): 265-272. Retrieved from http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57323214.
Vandergeten, E., Azadi, H., Teklemariam, D., Nyssen, J., Witlox, F. & Vanhaute, E. (2016). Agricultural outsourcing or land grabbing: a meta-analysis. Landscape Ecology, 31(7): 1395–1417. doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0365-y.
Vidal, J. (2012). La colonización del siglo XXI en África: el acaparamiento de tierras. CEPRID. Retrieved from https://www.nodo50.org/ceprid/spip.php?article1326.
Zimdahl, R. & Holtzer, T. (2016). The Ethical Values in the U.S. Agricultural and Food System. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 29(4): 549-557. doi:10.1007/s10806-016-9614-y.
Zoomers, A., Noorlos, F., Otsuki, K., Steel, G. & Westen, G. (2017).The Rush for Land in an Urbanizing World: From Land Grabbing Toward Developing Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities and Landscapes. World Development, 92: 242-252. doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.11.016.
Zoomers, A., Gekker, A. & Schäfe, M. (2016). Between two hypes: Will “big data” help unravel blind spots in understanding the “global land rush?”. Geoforum, 69: 147-159.
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