Impacts of large- scale land acquisitions on common- pool resources

Evidence from the Land Matrix

authored by

Markus Giger, Kerstin Nolte, Ward Anseeuw, Thomas Breu, Wytske Chamberlain, Peter Messerli, Christoph Oberlack, Tobias Haller

Abstract

This chapter analyses the database of the Land Matrix (LM) to find out more about the impacts of large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) on common-pool resources (CPR) and common property regimes. It presents the LM database and describes what information it contains about recent trends in LSLA in the global South. The chapter discusses how LSLAs impact CPRs and common property regimes. It also analyses empirical evidence of these impacts in the LM database and illustrate them with brief descriptions of individual cases and investigates how LSLAs affect CPRs and common property regimes. CPRs such as water, pasture, fisheries, wildlife, forests, and veldt products are resources linked and related to land and are central for food security and sustainability as an extensive body of research shows. All land cover categories may be important in the context of CPRs, although each may concern different types of CPRs and present different challenges.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Economic and Human Geography

External Organisation(s)

University of Bern
French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
University of Pretoria

Type

Contribution to book/anthology

Pages

257-279

No. of pages

23

Publication date

30.04.2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Sciences(all)

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 2 - Zero Hunger, SDG 15 - Life on Land

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351050982-17 (Access: Closed)