The Global Land Grab: Beyond the Hype

Abstract

Do large-scale land acquisitions exist?2.1 The number of new companies investing in agriculture, registered by the TIC annually, 2001-12; Concluding remarks; 3 Kenya and the 'global land grab': a view from below; Introduction; The origins of the system of land grabbing; The Kenyan experience of land grabbing; From resistance to reform; The 'global land grab' viewed from Kenya; Table 3.1 Summary table of some recent large-scale land investments in Kenya; Conclusions; Latin America; 4 The rapid expansion of genetically modified soy production into the Chaco region of Argentina; Introduction