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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Pearce, Fred.     Subjects     Land use, Rural.     Real property -- Foreign ownership.     Farm ownership.     Investments, Foreign.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pearce, Fred.       by title:      The land grabbers : ...         MARC Display

The land grabbers : the new fight over who owns the Earth / Fred Pearce. by Pearce, Fred. Boston : Beacon Press, c2012. Subjects Land use, Rural.   Real property -- Foreign ownership.   Farm ownership.   Investments, Foreign. ISBN:  9780807003244 (alk. paper) 0807003247 (alk. paper) Description:  x, 326 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Contents:  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 apocalyptico -- 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  Reveals the land grab taking place around the world and how corporate and governmental promises about the benefits of development are masking environmental and social destruction and the transfer of wealth out of host countries.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 333.3 Pe Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 333.3 Pe Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 333.3 Pe Lost 07/27/2020 Add Copy to MyList

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