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The land grabbers : the new fight over who owns the Earth Cover Image Book Book
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The land grabbers : the new fight over who owns the Earth

Pearce, Fred (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0807003247 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780807003244 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: pages ; cm.
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  • Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, 2012.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Land wars -- Gambella, Ethiopia: tragedy in the commons -- Chicago, USA: the price of food -- Saudi Arabia: ploughing in the petrodollars -- South Sudan: up the Nile with the capitalists of chaos -- White men in Africa -- Yala Swamp, Kenya: one man's dominion -- Liberia: the resource curse -- Palm Bay, Liberia: return of the oil palm -- London, England: pinstripes and pitchforks -- Across the globe -- Ukraine: Lebensraum -- Western Bahia, Brazil: Soylandia -- Chaco, Paraguay: Chaco apocalyptic -- Latin America: the new conquistadors -- Patagonia: the last place on Earth -- Australia: under the shade of a coolibah tree -- China's back yard -- Sumatra, Indonesia: pulping the jungle -- Papua New Guinea: 'a truly wild island' -- Cambodia: sweet and sour -- Southeast Asia: rubber hits the road to China -- African dreams -- Maasailand, Tanzania: the white people's place -- South Africa: green grab -- Africa: the second great trek -- Mozambique: the biofuels bubble -- Zimbabwe on the fast track -- The last enclosure -- Central Africa: laws of the jungle -- Inner Niger Delta, Mali: West African water grab -- Badia, Jordan: on the commons -- London, England: feeding the world.

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Subject: Land use, Rural
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