SOSC 1430 Study Guide - Final Guide: Shah Rukh Khan, Land Grabbing, Aramark
3 Oct 2016
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Inequalities in access to food and land readings. Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing. Over past several years, convergence of global crises in food, energy, nance, and the environment has driven a dramatic revaluation of land ownership. Powerful transnational and national economic actors from corporations to national governments and private equity funds have searched for empty land often in distant countries that can serve as sites for fuel and food production. Clear north-south dynamic that echoes land grabs - colonialism and imperialism. Emerging south-south dynamic, economically powerful non-northern countries, such as. Land - and water and labour - of global south - increasingly perceived as sources of alternative energy production, food crops, mineral deposits, and reservoirs of environmental services. National governments also looking inward - internal colonialism - land seen of cially as marginal or empty is set aside for commodity production. Pace and extent of land deals - rapid and widespread.
