Abstract
This introductory article to the 2014 Special Issue of Law and Development Review provides a brief overview of the scope, actors, discourses and impacts of the global land and resource rush, a phenomenon that has been triggered by the confluence of the financial, food and fuel crises in the late 2000s. It situates transnational land acquisitions in the law–development–ethics–politics nexus and introduces eight articles that are based on a selection of papers presented at the 2013 Law and Development Conference “Legal and Development Implications of International Land Acquisitions”, held from 30 to 31 May 2013 at Kyoto University, Japan.
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©2014 Law and Development Review
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Law and Development Implications of Transnational Land Acquisitions: Introduction
- Articles
- The Law and Land Grabbing: Friend or Foe?
- Arab Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Partners in Development?
- The Media Discourse of Land Grabbing and Resistance During Myanmar’s Legal Reformation: The Monywa Copper Mine
- International Adjudication of Land Disputes: For Development and Transnationalism
- Managing Foreign Investment in Agricultural Land in Africa: The Role of Bilateral Investment Treaties and International Investment Contracts
- Regulations of Large-Scale Acquisitions of Land: The Case of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests
- Questioning the “Regulatory Approach” to Large-Scale Agricultural Land Transfers in Ethiopia: A Legal Pluralistic Perspective
- What Can Be Expected from International Frameworks to Regulate Large-Scale Land and Water Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Law and Development Implications of Transnational Land Acquisitions: Introduction
- Articles
- The Law and Land Grabbing: Friend or Foe?
- Arab Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Partners in Development?
- The Media Discourse of Land Grabbing and Resistance During Myanmar’s Legal Reformation: The Monywa Copper Mine
- International Adjudication of Land Disputes: For Development and Transnationalism
- Managing Foreign Investment in Agricultural Land in Africa: The Role of Bilateral Investment Treaties and International Investment Contracts
- Regulations of Large-Scale Acquisitions of Land: The Case of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests
- Questioning the “Regulatory Approach” to Large-Scale Agricultural Land Transfers in Ethiopia: A Legal Pluralistic Perspective
- What Can Be Expected from International Frameworks to Regulate Large-Scale Land and Water Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa?